# Term to contrast multiplicative factors greater/less than one?

Are there adjectives to distinguish positive real numbers/functions depending on whether they are greater/equal/less than one? I have a nagging feeling that I already know the answer but can't remember.

I am expecting something along the lines of subunitary, unitary, or superunitary. Indeed, one source defines subunitary as "of a magnitude less than one unit", which is what I want. Yet, I have not encountered the term despite running into the concept all the time. Would you understand the meaning of these terms without an explanation?

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None that you can expect your readers to know. There is "unimodular" (meaning $|a|=1$) but this is somewhat different from what you asked. – user31373 May 18 '12 at 22:19
Work with the logarithm, thereby reducing it to a previously solved case ("positive/zero/negative"). – mjqxxxx May 18 '12 at 23:04
Why do you need special terms? Just be clear. – lhf May 19 '12 at 1:59
Why use three words if one would do? – Emre May 21 '12 at 20:17