Definitions for binary

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binary bi·na·ry

Spelling: [bahy-nuh-ree, -ner-ee]

IPA: /ˈbaɪ nə ri, -nɛr i/

Binary is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in binary (abinry).

Definitions for binary

noun

1. a whole composed of two.
2. 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:
3. Also called binary number. Mathematics. a number expressed in the binary system of notation.
4. Computers. binary code.
5. Computers. an executable file stored in binary format.
6. Astronomy. binary star.

adjective

1. consisting of, indicating, or involving two.
2. Mathematics. 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 × 2 5 + 1 × 2 4 + 1 × 2 3 + 0 × 2 2 + 1 × 2 1 + 0 × 2 0 . 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.
3. Computers. of, relating to, or written in binary code; programmed or encoded using only the digits 0 and 1:
4. Chemistry. noting a compound containing only two elements or groups, as sodium chloride, methyl bromide, or methyl hydroxide.
5. Metallurgy. (of an alloy) having two principal constituents.

Origin of binary

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin bīnārius, equivalent to bīn(ī) (see bin-) + -ārius -ary

Examples for binary

Includes people who do not identify within the binary gender system (i.e., man/woman).

And this, in turn, reinforced the religious vision of a God-given binary.

She acts as a sort of lie detector, but proceeds through elegant narrative rather than binary test.

Antares is probably a binary, although its binary character has not yet been established.

It is regarded as a binary of long and as yet unascertained period.

It is only in the case of binary systems that we can discover the masses of stars at all.

Many stars are in binary systems, locked in mutual orbit with another star.

Each pair is apparently a binary; but the period of revolution is unknown.

The binary coloured systems are not all composed of blue and red suns.

A little astronomical forensics suggests that these objects used to be a binary: two stars in mutual orbit.