Binary

Etymology
From binarius:, from  bini:.

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
 * 2)  Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
 * 3) 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Synonyms

 * dyadic
 * Boolean
 * base-2

Antonyms

 * ASCII, text

Derived terms

 * binary antonym
 * binary arithmetic
 * binary code
 * binary compound
 * binary digit
 * binary distribution
 * binary fission


 * binary function
 * binary logarithm
 * binary name
 * binary noun
 * binary number
 * binary numeral system
 * binary operation


 * binary operator
 * binary quasar
 * binary relation
 * binary star
 * binary star system
 * binary tree
 * gender binary

Noun

 * 1)  The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
 * 2)  An executable computer file.
 * 3)  A star system consisting of only two stars.

Synonyms

 * base 2
 * binary star, double star

Derived terms

 * binary-coded decimal
 * visual binary
 * X-ray binary

Thesaurus
Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, dual, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminate, geminated, second, secondary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold