Binary
WordNet
adjective
(1) Consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two
"A binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"
"A binary compound"
"The binary number system has two as its base"
(2) Of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
"A binary digit"
noun
(3) A system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
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Etymology
From , from .
Adjective
- Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, presence or absence of a signal.
- Binary states are often abstracted as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Noun
- The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- An executable computer file.
- A star system consisting of only two stars.