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Nary vs Unary - What's the difference?

nary | unary |

As adjectives the difference between nary and unary

is that nary is not one while unary is consisting of or involving a single element or component.

As a noun unary is

the unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.

nary

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not one
    • There was nary a blip in sales.

    Derived terms

    * nary a

    Anagrams

    * Appalachian English

    unary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
  • (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or input; having domain of dimension 1.
    • Negation is a unary operation.

    Noun

    (unaries)
  • (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
  • (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

    • Coordinate terms

    * binary * ternary