unsigned
/ənsˈaɪnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).
adj
adj
Not signed to an organization such as a sports club or record label.
Example Sentences
- "We use an unsigned variable to store the employee's salary, since it will never be less than zero."
- "The bank rejected the unsigned check."
- "The unsigned player also had the option of sitting out a year and negotiating as a free agent."
- "For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English signed English unsigned From un- + signed.