a. [See UNI- 1 and LITERAL a.]
1. Math. (See quot.)
1817. Colebrooke, Algebra, etc., 185. Equation uniliteral, or involving a single unknown quantity.
2. Involving the use of, or consisting of, only one letter.
1828–32. Webster.
1863. Townsend, Mod. Geom., I. 2. The latter or uniliteral notation is generally the more convenient.
1892. C. Taylor, Witness of Hermas, 86. Examples of the uniliteral acrostic abound in the Sibylline Oracles.
