English-Spanish translations for binary

• binario

Definition of binary

• Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal
• Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states
• Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts
• Of an operation, function, procedure or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters or inputs; having domain of dimension 2
• Of data, consisting coded values not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code
• Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions
• A thing which can have only two values
• The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1
• A satellite system consisting of two stars or other bodies orbiting each other

Synonyms

• arity
• adicity
• rank

Examples

• Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
• Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
• A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
• Division of reals is a binary operation.
• He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
• He has a very binary understanding of gender.

Related words

• binarily
• binarity