binary
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Late Latin bīnārius (“consisting of two”), from Latin bīnī (“two-by-two, pair”).
Adjective
binary (not comparable)
- Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
- Binary states are often abstracted as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
- A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 2.
- Division of reals is a binary operation.
- (computing) Of data, consisting of arbitrary values; that is, not interpretable as plain or ASCII text.
- He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
Synonyms
- (arity, adicity, rank): dyadic
- (logic of binary states): Boolean
- (of calculations with binary numbers): base-2
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from binary
Translations
on or off
logic states
using binary number system
equal importance
having two parts
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See also
Noun
binary (plural binaries)
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (computing) An executable computer file.
- (astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.
Synonyms
- (base 2 numeral system) base 2
- (system of two stars) binary star, double star
Derived terms
Translations
number system
executable computer file
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