unsigned

adj

1. (not-comparable)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. (not-comparable)Lacking a signature, unendorsed.

   “The bank rejected the unsigned check.”

3. (not-comparable)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.”

noun

1. 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.”