unary
- Adjective. Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
- Adjective. (mathematics, programming) Of an operation, function, procedure(,) or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter(,) or input; having domain of dimension 1.
- Noun. (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
- Noun. (context, information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
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