unitary
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (government, of a system of government or administration) That concentrates power in a single body, rather than sharing it with more local bodies.Examples: "a unitary authority"; "a unitary state"
2. (mathematics, of an algebra) That contains an identity element.Synonyms: unital
3. (mathematics, linear algebra, mathematical analysis, of a matrix or operator) Whose inverse is equal to its adjoint.Examples: "The eigenvectors of an orthogonal or unitary operator, corresponding to different eigenvalues, are orthogonal."; "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."; "We then repeat the same procedure to the (d − 1) × (d − 1) block unitary matrix using (d − 2) two-level unitary matrices."
noun (English)
1. (UK) A unitary council.Examples: "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."UK
2. (mathematics) A unitary matrix or operator.Examples: "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 invariants."; "Can unitaries in a unital C*-algebra with real rank zero be approximated by unitaries with finite spectrum?"
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