Adjective: unary yoo-nu-ree
- 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"
- The bijective base-1 numeral system: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times
"Tally marks are a common example of the unary numeral system";
- unary numeral system
See also: single
Type of: number representation system, number system, numeration system, system of numeration
Encyclopedia: Unary