Not forming a single or unified whole; consisting of multiple parts or elements.
The nonunitary structure of the organization made decision-making processes more complex.
Not characterized by or involving a single governing authority or system.
The nonunitary political system allowed for regional governments to have significant autonomy.
In mathematics or quantum physics, of an operator, matrix, or transformation: not unitary; lacking the property that its inverse equals its conjugate transpose, and therefore not preserving probabilities.
A nonunitary evolution of the quantum state would violate the conservation of probability.