binary

  1. Adjective.  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.
  2. Adjective.  (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
  3. Adjective.  (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
  4. Adjective.  Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
  5. Adjective.  (mathematics, programming) Of an operation, function, procedure(,) or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter(,) or input; having domain of dimension 2.
  6. Adjective.  (computing) Of data, consisting of arbitrary values; that is, not interpretable as plain or ASCII text.
  7. Noun.  (mathematics, computing) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
  8. Noun.  (computing) An executable computer file.
  9. Noun.  (astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.

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