noun🔗ShareThe unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system."The teacher explained that while decimal numbers use place values, unary only uses the quantity of symbols, like tally marks, to represent a number. "numbermathsystemcomputinglogicChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareUnary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers."Unary is useful for representing small numbers efficiently in certain data compression algorithms. "computingmathtechnologynumbertechnicallogicsciencestatisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareConsisting of or involving a single element or component."The plus sign in "+5" is a unary operator because it only applies to the single number 5. "mathsciencetechnicalcomputingnumberlogicChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter or input; having domain of dimension 1."Negation is a unary operation."computingtechnologyelectronicstechnicallogicmachinefunctionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
