unitary

CEFRC1

/ˈjuːnɪt(ə)ɹi/

adjective

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adjective
Forming one whole rather than being divided into parts.
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adjective
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That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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We believe in a unitary god.
1980, Michael Reed, Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics, Volume 1: Functional Analysis, Revised and Expanded Edition page 243, Since ergodicity and mixing are expressible in terms of the induced Koopman unitaries they are not additional invari...
a unitary authority

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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
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
We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices.
2008, Mikio Nakahara, Tetsuo Ohmi, Quantum Computing: From Linear Algebra to Physical Realizations, page 84
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

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From unit + -ary.