of or relating to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation, since 58 = 1 × 25 + 1 × 24 + 1 × 23 + 0 × 22 + 1 × 21 + 0 × 20.
of or relating to the digits or numbers used in binary notation.
of or relating to a binary system.
(of an operation) assigning a third quantity to two given quantities, as in the addition of two numbers.
Computers. of, relating to, or written in binary code; programmed or encoded using only the digits 0 and 1: All executable programs on the computer are stored in binary files.
Chemistry. noting a compound containing only two elements or groups, as sodium chloride, methyl bromide, or methyl hydroxide.
Metallurgy. (of an alloy) having two principal constituents.
noun,pluralbi·na·ries.
a whole composed of two.
Mathematics. a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2: to convert decimal to binary.
Also called binary number .Mathematics. a number expressed in the binary system of notation.
Computers. binary code.
Computers. an executable file stored in binary format.
Astronomy. binary star.
Origin of binary
1350–1400; Middle English <Late Latin bīnārius, equivalent to bīn(ī) (see bin-) + -ārius-ary
It’s interested in the time she spends crossing the barrier between gender binaries.
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A small percentage declined to state or identified as non-binary.
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Each pixel received a binary 1 or 0 depending on whether or not it contained part of the image.
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She found herself forced to explain an entirely different social world by relying only on the binary categories of female and male that she knew from her own society.
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Instead of using traditional binary code, which represents information with 0s and 1s, they use quantum bits, or qubits.
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And this, in turn, reinforced the religious vision of a God-given binary.
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She acts as a sort of lie detector, but proceeds through elegant narrative rather than binary test.
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A little astronomical forensics suggests that these objects used to be a binary: two stars in mutual orbit.
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Many stars are in binary systems, locked in mutual orbit with another star.
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Includes people who do not identify within the binary gender system (i.e., man/woman).
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But till these binary stars were discovered we had no means of guessing that this law had any force beyond our own solar system.
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The repetition was a survival from the old dance movements in binary form.
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But "binary" stars are actually moving in one system, and revolve round each other as our earth moves round the sun.
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This is a binary star of which the orbit plane passes nearly through the earth.
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The nomenclature of acids follows the same general lines as that for binary compounds.
Anything composed of two parts. In modern computers, information is stored in banks of components that act like switches. Since switches can be either on or off, they have a binary character, and we say that the computer uses “binary arithmetic” to do its work.