of, relating to, or expressed in binary notation or binary code
3.
(of a compound or molecule) containing atoms of two different elements
4. metallurgy
(of an alloy) consisting of two components or phases
5.
(of an educational system) consisting of two parallel forms of education such as the grammar school and the secondary modern in Britain
6. mathematics, logic
(of a relation, expression, or operation) applying to two elements of its domain; having two argument places; dyadic
nounWord forms: plural-ries
7.
something composed of two parts or things
8. astronomy binary star
9. short for binary weapon
Word origin
C16: from Late Latin bīnārius; see bin-
Examples of 'binaries' in a sentence
binaries
That's blowing up everyone's binaries big time.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Considerations of genre likewise unsettle the fixed binaries of public and private.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
But binaries were just the tip of the regulatory iceberg.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
You never knew which of these crude binaries would show up each day.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Such artists tend to reject aesthetic binaries of difficulty/accessibility, high/low culture, good/bad.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
He began to observe binaries - double stars, whose brightness alters considerably when one eclipses the other - when he was 14.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
All related terms of 'binaries'
binary
The binary system expresses numbers using only the two digits 0 and 1. It is used especially in computing .
binary star
a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass . A visual binary can be seen through a telescope . A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
eclipsing binary
a binary star whose orbital plane lies in or near the line of sight so that one component is regularly eclipsed by its companion
X-ray binary
a binary star that is an intense source of X-rays and is composed of a normal star in close orbit with a white dwarf , neutron star, or black hole
semidetached binary
a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other