unary

Definition

Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Negation is a unary operation."
• "Zadeh’s claim is that if the meaning of an expression (X) can be modeling by a fuzzy membership function variable, then the meaning of an expression such as “very X” is simply a membership function over the same variable determined by applying a unary operator to the membership function for X."