unsigned
Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).
Adjective
- 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.
- Lacking a signature, unendorsed.
- The bank rejected the unsigned check.
- Not signed to an organization such as a sports club or record label.
- The unsigned player also had the option of sitting out a year and negotiating as a free agent. - 2008, Jonathan Rand, The Year That Changed the Game:
Origin
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.
Antonyms
Noun
- A numeric value or variable that has no sign and can only be positive.
- For compilers which produce two-byte unsigneds, the maximum cumulative frequency is 16,383 if we wish to avoid the use of long arithmetic. - 1999, Steve Heller, Optimizing C++, page 107: