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