unsigned

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ signed.

Adjective

unsigned (not comparable)

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

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

2. Lacking a signature, unendorsed.

   The bank rejected the unsigned check.

3. Not signed to an organization such as a sports club or record label.
   • 2008, Jonathan Rand, The Year That Changed the Game:

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

Antonyms

• signed

Translations

not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value

Chinese: Mandarin: 無符號 / 无符号 (zh) (wú fúhào), 非帶號 / 非带号 (fēidàihào) Finnish: etumerkitön (fi) French: non-signé Italian: senza segno Japanese: 符号無し (ふごうなし, fugō-nashi) Macedonian: без знак (bez znak) Polish: bez znaku Portuguese: sem sinal Russian: беззна́ковый (ru) (bezznákovyj)

lacking a signature, unendorsed

Bulgarian: неподписан (nepodpisan) Czech: nepodepsaný Danish: usigneret Finnish: allekirjoittamaton Georgian: ხელმოუწერელი (xelmouc̣ereli) Greek: ανυπόγραφος (el) (anypógrafos) Macedonian: непо́тпишан (nepótpišan) Norwegian: Bokmål: usignert Nynorsk: usignert Polish: niepodpisany Russian: неподпи́санный (ru) (nepodpísannyj) Turkish: imzasız (tr)

Noun

unsigned (plural unsigneds)

1. (computing) A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.
   • 1999, Steve Heller, Optimizing C++, page 107:

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

Anagrams

• undesign, Duensing, unsinged