Unary
WordNet
adjective
(1) Consisting of or involving a single element or component
"In a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
- 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.
Noun
- The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
- Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.