unary

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

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