English Explanatory Dictionary

binary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
  2. Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
  3. Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
  4. Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
  5. Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
  6. Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
  7. Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
  8. Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
noun
  1. A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
  2. The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
  3. Synonym of binary file.
  4. Synonym of binary asteroid.
  5. Synonym of binary planet.
  6. Synonym of binary star.
  7. Synonym of binary option.

Pronunciation

/ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹɪ/ /ˈbaɪ.nə.ɹi/ /ˈbaɪ.nɛɹ.i/ en-us-binary.ogg En-us-binary (alternate pronunciation).oga

Word forms

binary more binary most binary binaries

Etymology

From Late Latin bīnārius (“consisting of two”), from Latin bīnī (“two-by-two, pair”). By surface analysis, bin- + -ary.

Synonyms

black-and-white Boolean base-2 dyadic double twin binary dual twofold gender-binary base 2 binary file binary asteroid binary planet double star binary star binary option

Antonyms

non-binary plain text text file

Related words

binarily binarity unary ternary binarism -ary decimal hexadecimal octal

Derived words

binariness binarise binarize binarist binarization binit circumbinary duobinary exbi- gibi- gigabinary interbinary intrabinary kibi- kilobinary mebi- megabinary negabinary pebi- phinary polybinary protobinary pseudobinary quebi- robi- superbinary tebi- yobi- zebi- binary antonym binary arithmetic binary blob binary chop binary clone binary code binary-coded decimal binary-compatible binary compound binary decimal binary digit binary distribution binary fission binary function binary indexed tree binary large object binary logarithm binary name binary noun binary number binary numeral system binary operation binary operator binary point binary pulsar binary quasar binary question binary relation binary-safe binary search binary star

Translations

Belarusian: двайко́вы Belarusian: біна́рны Bulgarian: двои́чен Catalan: binari Danish: binær Esperanto: duuma Esperanto: bulea Finnish: binäärinen French: binaire Georgian: ორობითი Georgian: ბინარული German: binär Greek: δυαδικός Hungarian: bináris Indonesian: biner Kazakh: бинарлық Kazakh: екілік Korean: 이진 Korean: 참거짓 Korean: 진리 Māori: tāhūrua Norwegian Bokmål: binær Norwegian Nynorsk: binær Polish: binarny Portuguese: binário Romanian: binar Russian: двои́чный Russian: бина́рный Spanish: binario Swedish: binär Turkish: iki terimli Turkish: ikilik Ukrainian: двійко́вий Ukrainian: біна́рний Chinese Mandarin: 二進 /二进 Dutch: binair Dutch: binaire Italian: binario
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