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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

unário

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /uˈna.ɾi.u/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unary/ˈjuːnəri/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Uma operação unária requer apenas um operando."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of or relating to a mathematical or logical operation taking only one operand.

    "Negation is a classic example of a unary operator in logic."
As noun
  1. 1

    A numeral system using a base of one, where every natural number is represented by a corresponding repetition of a single symbol.

    "Tally marks are a common everyday application of unary notation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin word 'unarius', meaning 'consisting of one', formed from the Latin root 'unus' (one) combined with the suffix '-ary'. It entered mathematical and linguistic nomenclature in the 19th century to describe operations, systems, or relations involving a single element or argument.

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