unsigned

English

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.

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

Derived terms

• unsignedness

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