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Word: unary (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
  • programming|computer engineering Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

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Noun:

  • information theory Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
  • mathematics The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.

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