Meaning

2 senses

  1. (not comparable)Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

    einstellig

    consisting of or involving a single element or component

  2. (not comparable)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.

    unär

Examples

1 sentences

  1. In the C and C++ programming languages, the unary operators take only one argument.

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Translations

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By meaning 2
consisting of or involving a single element or component:
mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument:

Origin

From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

From Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

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Word family

4 related words
Derivednonunaryunarilyunary operationunary operator

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
unappealingunappreciatedunapproachableunarmunassailableunassumingunattainable

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