binary
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin bīnārius (“consisting of two”), from Latin bīnī (“two-by-two, pair”); surface analysis, bin- + -ary.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹi/, /ˈbaɪ.nɛɹ.i/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪnɛɹi, -aɪnəɹi
AdjectiveEdit
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binary (comparative more binary, superlative most binary)
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist[1], 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.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- Synonym: Boolean
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- Synonym: base-2
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- Synonyms: dyadic, double, twin; see also Thesaurus:dual
- 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 two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- Division of reals is a binary operation.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- Antonym: plain text
- He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- He has a very binary understanding of gender.
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- binarise
- binarize
- binary antonym
- binary arithmetic
- binary chop
- binary clone
- binary code
- binary-coded decimal
- binary-compatible
- binary-compatible
- binary compound
- binary decimal
- binary digit
- binary distribution
- binary fission
- binary function
- binary indexed tree
- binary logarithm
- binary name
- binary noun
- binary number
- binary numeral system
- binary operation
- binary operator
- binary pulsar
- binary quasar
- binary relation
- binary-safe
- binary search
- binary star
- binary star system
- binary system
- binary theory
- binary tree
- binary weapon
- contact binary
- eclipsing binary
- full binary tree
- gender binary
- kilobinary
- megabinary
- spectroscopic binary
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off
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logic states
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using binary number system
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equal importance
having two parts
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not ASCII
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See alsoEdit
NounEdit
binary (countable and uncountable, plural binaries)
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- 2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation, →ISBN, page 51:
- The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]
- 2012, Scott L. Baugh, Latino American Cinema, →ISBN:
- The “in” versus “out” of this sociological model certainly carries to the admittedly simplistic binary of “good” versus “bad” of stereotypes in fictional works and the scholarly approaches to them.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- Synonym: base 2
- 1987, Robert W. McBeth; J. Robert Ferguson, IBM Assembler: An Intuitive Approach, John Wiley, page 5:
- As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file; a file consisting of data other than human-readable text.
- Antonyms: non-binary, text file
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- Synonym: double star
- 2010, Nader Haghighipour, editor, Planets in Binary Star Systems, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 109:
- As discussed in Section 5.1, the study of the properties of planets in binaries and the search for differences between the characteristics of these objects and those of planets orbiting single stars, is crucial to the understanding of the role of binarity in planet formation and evolution.
HypernymsEdit
- (astronomy): celestial object
HyponymsEdit
- (astronomy: asteroid): contact binary
- (astronomy: star): visual binary, X-ray binary
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- binarism (see there for more)
TranslationsEdit
number system
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binary computer file
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