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unary [ˈjuːnərɪ]
adj
consisting of, or affecting, a single element or component; monadic
[C16 (in the obsolete sense: a unit): from Latin unus one + -ary]
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Adj.1.unary - consisting of or involving a single element or componentunary - consisting of or involving a single element or component; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result"
single - existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness"


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They are defined in a recursive way by saying that the empty tree is a unary-binary-tree, and that a root followed by one unary-binary-tree (a unary node), or a root followed by a left and a right unary-binary-tree (a binary node) are again unary-binary trees.
He covers the structure and study of thermodynamics, its laws, variables, and relations; equilibrium in thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamic; unary heterogeneous systems; multi-component homogeneous nonreacting systems and multi-component heterogeneous systems; the thermodynamics of phase diagrams; multi-component multiphase reacting systems; capillarity effects; defects in crystals; equilibrium in continuous systems; and electrochemistry.
Unary photographs capture the visual image of particular moments, but they do nothing more.
 
 
 
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