unary

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1. 1

   Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

   • Her work is a renunciation of the old narrative, a throwing away of the cotton reel, an enunciation of the unary signifier, fort, that is meaningless in itself.
2. 2

   Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand,…

   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.
   • On the other hand, blank spaces should not be used for unary operators such as unary minus (−), address of (&), indirection (*), member access (.), increment (++), and decrement (−−).
3. 3

   The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.

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   1. 4

      Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

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