Dictionary Check: unary

"unary" is a valid word!

Scrabble 8 points
Words with Friends 9 points

Definition

adjective

consisting of or involving a single element or component

Example: "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result"
noun

the bijective base-1 numeral system: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times.

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