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unitary

/ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/

unitary adjective: having the quality of oneness.

Adjective

unitary

  1. Having the quality of oneness.
    • If yes–no questions are CPs containing a null yes–no question operator (a null counterpart of whether) in spec-CP, we can arrive at a unitary characterisation of questions as CPs with an interrogative specifier.2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 221
  2. That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.
    • a unitary authority
    • a unitary state
  3. That contains an identity element.
    Synonyms:
    unital
  4. Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.
    • The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal.1997, P. K. Suetin, Alexandra I. Kostrikin, Yuri I. Manin, translated by M. E. Alferieff, Linear Algebra and Geometry, page 137
    • In essence we are looking for some way to average the individual unitary matrices Uₖ. But a linear combination of unitary matrices does not remain unitary.2002, M. Klajman, J. A. Chambers, “A Novel Approximate Joint Diagonalization Algorithm”, in J. G. McWhirter, I. K. Proudler, editors, Mathematics in Signal Processing V, page 71

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
    • Can unitaries in a unital C*-algebra with real rank zero be approximated by unitaries with finite spectrum?2001, Huaxin Lin, An Introduction to the Classification of Amenable C*-Algebras, page 170

unitary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

unitary in Hindi

एकात्मक

unitary in Tamil

ஒற்றையான, கூறுபடா

unitary in Marathi

एकात्मक

unitary in Urdu

واحد, وحدانی, یگانہ
More languagesFewer languages
unitary in Malayalam
പൂർണ്ണമായ, അഭിന്നമായ, അവിഭാജ്യമായ, അവിഭക്തമായ
unitary in Kannada
ಏಕಾತ್ಮಕ
unitary in Punjabi
ਇਕਾਤਮਕ
unitary in Gujarati
એકાત્મક
unitary in Odia
ଏକାତ୍ମକ
unitary in Nepali
एकात्मक

Examples of unitary in a sentence

  • A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.
  • Despite being a unitary state, the Government of the United Kingdom devolved many matters to the Governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  • They will be replaced by large unitary councils that will handle everything.

All 22 example sentences with unitary

Synonyms of unitary

Antonyms

Forms of unitary

pluralunitaries

Origin of unitary

From unit + -ary.

Words formed from unitary

Phrases with unitary

Questions about unitary

What does unitary mean?
Unitary means having the quality of oneness.
What is unitary in Hindi?
Unitary in Hindi is एकात्मक. See Unitary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unitary?
Unitary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce unitary?
Unitary is pronounced /ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/ (UK).

Words near unitary in the dictionary

  1. unitarizations
  2. unitarize
  3. unitarized
  4. unitarizes
  5. unitarizing
  6. unitary
  7. unitary authorities
  8. unitary authority
  9. unitary council
  10. unitary councils
  11. unitary government

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unitary (page history and authors); unitary (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unitary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unitary (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unitary (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unitary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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