unsigned

CEFRB1

/əˈnsaɪnd/

adjective · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Not having the required person's signature on it.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Lacking a signature, unendorsed.

Examples

  • "How do you install unsigned apps?" is a very frequently asked question.

  • We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Not signed to an organization such as a sports club or record label.

  2. Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.

More examples

In context

  • The bank rejected the unsigned check.

  • For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic.

  • The unsigned player also had the option of sitting out a year and negotiating as a free agent.

Antonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The legal contract remained blank because neither party had applied their signature yet.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

From un- + signed.