unary /ˈjuːnəɹi/adjective 2noun 2forms 1 adjective2 •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. — 1995 •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. noun2 •The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system. •Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers. formsunaries
