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unitaries

unitaries is the plural of unitary.

Meaning of unitary

Noun

unitary (plural unitaries)

  1. (UK) A unitary council.
    • Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years.2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain
  2. A unitary matrix or operator.
    • Since ergodicity and mixing are expressible in terms of the induced Koopman unitaries they are not additional invariants.1980, Michael Reed, Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 1: Functional Analysis, Revised and Expanded Edition page 243

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Questions about unitaries

What is unitaries the plural of?
Unitaries is the plural of unitary.

Words near unitaries in the dictionary

  1. unitarianize
  2. unitarianized
  3. unitarianizes
  4. unitarianizing
  5. unitarians
  6. unitaries
  7. unitarily
  8. unitariness
  9. unitarisation
  10. unitarisations
  11. unitarised

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