In the C and C++ programming languages, the unary operators take only one argument.
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Unary
//ˈjuːnəɹi//
Synonyms for "unary" (4 found)
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15 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- едини́чен adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
Czech
1 entries- unární adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Finnish
2 entries- unaarinen adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
- yksiosainen adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
French
1 entries- unaire adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
German
2 entries- einstellig adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
- unär adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Icelandic
1 entries- einstæður adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Malay
2 entries- sesatu adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
- sesatu adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Persian
1 entries- یگانی adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
Polish
1 entries- jednoargumentowy adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Portuguese
1 entries- unário adj (consisting of or involving a single element or component)
Romanian
1 entries- unar adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
Swedish
1 entries- unär adj (mathematics, programming: of a function, to take one argument)
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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.
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Negation is a unary operation.
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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.
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