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bi·na·ry    Audio Help   [bahy-nuh-ree, -ner-ee] Pronunciation Key adjective, noun, plural -ries.
–adjective
1.consisting of, indicating, or involving two.
2.Mathematics.
a.of or pertaining 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.
b.of or pertaining to the digits or numbers used in binary notation.
c.of or pertaining to a binary system.
d.(of an operation) assigning a third quantity to two given quantities, as in the addition of two numbers.
3.Chemistry. noting a compound containing only two elements or groups, as sodium chloride, methyl bromide, or methyl hydroxide.
4.Metallurgy. (of an alloy) having two principal constituents.
–noun
5.a whole composed of two.
6.Astronomy. binary star.
7.Also called binary number. Mathematics. a number expressed in the binary system of notation.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL bīnārius, equiv. to bīn(ī) (see bin-) + -ārius -ary]
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bi·na·ry    Audio Help   (bī'nə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components; twofold.
  2. Of or relating to a system of numeration having 2 as its base.
  3. Chemistry Consisting of or containing only molecules consisting of two kinds of atoms.
  4. Of or employing two comparatively nontoxic chemicals that combine to produce a deadly poison: binary weapons; a binary nerve gas.
  5. Music Having two sections or subjects.

n.   pl. bi·na·ries
Something that is binary, especially a binary star.


[Middle English binarie, from Late Latin bīnārius, from Latin bīnī, two by two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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binary 
1460, from L.L. binarius, from bini "two-by-two," from bis "double."

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binary

adjective
1. of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base; "a binary digit" 
2. consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms); "a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"; "a binary compound"; "the binary number system has two as its base" 

noun
1. a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation [syn: binary star
2. a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system; "the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems" 

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binary [ˈbainəri]
the system of writing and calculating with numbers which uses only two digits (0 and 1) and has 2 as a base (101 = 1 four, 0 twos, 1 unit = 5)
Arabic: ثُنائي، مُزْدَوِج
Chinese (Simplified): 二进制,二进位的
Chinese (Traditional): 二進制(計算法)
Czech: dvojkový, binární
Danish: binær
Dutch: tweetallig
Estonian: kahendsüsteem
Finnish: binaarinen
French: binaire
German: binär
Greek: δυαδικός
Hungarian: a kettes számrendszer
Icelandic: tvenndarkerfi
Indonesian: binari, biner
Italian: binario
Japanese: 二進法
Latvian: binārs; binārā skaitīšanas sistēma
Lithuanian: dvinaris
Norwegian: binær; totallsystemet
Polish: system dwójkowy
Portuguese (Brazil): binário
Portuguese (Portugal): binário
Romanian: binar
Russian: двоичная система счисления
Slovak: dvojkový (systém)
Slovenian: binaren
Spanish: binario
Swedish: binär, binära talsystemet
Turkish: ikili sistem
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binary    Audio Help   (bī'nə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. Having two parts.
  2. Mathematics Based on the number 2 or the binary number system.

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binary [(beye-nuh-ree, beye-ner-ee)]

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.


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binary
1. Base two. A number representation consisting of zeros and ones used by practically all computers because of its ease of implementation using digital electronics and Boolean algebra.
2. binary file.
3. A description of an operator which takes two arguments. See also unary, ternary.
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Binary

Bi"nal\, a. [See Binary.] Twofold; double. [R.] "Binal revenge, all this." --Ford.
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Binary

Bi"na*ry\, a. [L. binarius, fr. bini two by two, two at a time, fr. root of bis twice; akin to E. two: cf. F. binaire.] Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. --Davies & Peck.

Binary compound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements.

Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is the logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of .43429448.

Binary measure (Mus.), measure divisible by two or four; common time.

Binary nomenclature (Nat. Hist.), nomenclature in which the names designate both genus and species.

Binary scale (Arith.), a uniform scale of notation whose ratio is two.

Binary star (Astron.), a double star whose members have a revolution round their common center of gravity.

Binary theory (Chem.), the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.
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