diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a899202425e93c..7e11d0c110132c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Language changes
     the `broadcast` call `(⨳).(a, b)`.  Hence, one no longer defines methods
     for `.*` etcetera.  This also means that "dot operations" automatically
     fuse into a single loop, along with other dot calls `f.(x)`. ([#17623])
+    Similarly for unary operators ([#20249]).
 
   * Newly defined methods are no longer callable from the same dynamic runtime
     scope they were defined in ([#17057]).
diff --git a/doc/src/manual/functions.md b/doc/src/manual/functions.md
index de36347e839ec6..2d3b4caa41cf0d 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/functions.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/functions.md
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ overwriting `X` with `sin.(Y)` in-place. If the left-hand side is an array-index
 e.g. `X[2:end] .= sin.(Y)`, then it translates to `broadcast!` on a `view`, e.g. `broadcast!(sin, view(X, 2:endof(X)), Y)`,
 so that the left-hand side is updated in-place.
 
-Operators like `.*` are handled with the same mechanism:
+Binary (or unary) operators like `.+` are handled with the same mechanism:
 they are equivalent to `broadcast` calls and are fused with other nested "dot" calls.
  `X .+= Y` etcetera is equivalent to `X .= X .+ Y` and results in a fused in-place assignment;
  see also [dot operators](@ref man-dot-operators).
diff --git a/doc/src/manual/mathematical-operations.md b/doc/src/manual/mathematical-operations.md
index e62b99b6408c1c..07fa4948d653c9 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/mathematical-operations.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/mathematical-operations.md
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ to perform `^` element-by-element on arrays.   For example,
 `[1,2,3] ^ 3` is not defined, since there is no standard
 mathematical meaning to "cubing" an array, but `[1,2,3] .^ 3`
 is defined as computing the elementwise
-(or "vectorized") result `[1^3, 2^3, 3^3]`.
+(or "vectorized") result `[1^3, 2^3, 3^3]`.  Similarly for unary
+operators like `!` or `√`, there is a corresponding `.√` that
+applies the operator elementwise.
 
 More specifically, `a .^ b` is parsed as the ["dot" call](@ref man-vectorized)
 `(^).(a,b)`, which performs a [broadcast](@ref Broadcasting) operation: