binary

Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.

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

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.

Near-synonym: Boolean

Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

binary star

Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.

Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

Division of reals is a binary operation.

A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.

The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]

The “in” versus “out” of this sociological model certainly carries to the admittedly simplistic binary of “good” versus “bad” of stereotypes in fictional works and the scholarly approaches to them.

The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.

Synonym of binary file.

Now that you have a high-level idea of what binaries look like and how they work, you're ready to dive into a real binary format.

Synonym of binary asteroid.

Synonym of binary planet.