English

Adjective

binary (not comparable)

1. Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions, such as on/off, true/false, the presence or absence of an electrical pulse.

   Binary states are often abstracted as 1 and 0 in computer science.

2. Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
3. (mathematics, computing) Concerning mathematical calculations performed using base 2.
4. Having two equally-important parts, e.g. a binary star system or a binary poison; or related to something with two parts, e.g. the binary distribution .

Translations

• Dutch: binair , binaire , tweetallig , tweetallige
• Finnish: binäärinen
• Persian: دودوئی (dodoi)
• Romanica: binario m, binaria f
• Swedish: binär

Noun

binary (uncountable)

1. (mathematics, computing) The binary number system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

See also

• base
• decimal
• hexadecimal
• octal