What is binary?

  • (adj): Consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two.
    Example: "A binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other"; "a binary compound"; "the binary number system has two as its base"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on binary:

Sobol Sequence - Additional Uniformity Properties
... sequence is said to satisfy Property A if for any binary segment (not an arbitrary subset) of the d-dimensional sequence of length 2d there is exactly one draw in each ... sequence is said to satisfy Property A’ if for any binary segment (not an arbitrary subset) of the d-dimensional sequence of length 4d there is exactly one draw in each 4d hypercubes that ... The d-dimensional Sobol sequence possesses Property A iff where Vd is the d × d binary matrix defined by , with vk,j,m denoting the m-th digit after the binary point of the ...
Marcel J. E. Golay - Achievements
... Generalization of the perfect binary Hamming codes to non-binary codes ... Those are pairs of binary sequences whose autocorrelation functions add up to zero for all non-zero time shifts ...
Binary - Other
... Binary (album), the 5th studio album by Kay Tse, released on July 25, 2008 Binary option, also known as digital option or all-or-nothing option, in finance Binary (novel), a 1972 novel by Michael ...
Alpha Tucanae
... Alpha Tucanae (α Tuc, α Tucanae) is a binary star system in the southern circumpolar constellation of Tucana ... This is a spectroscopic binary, which means that the two stars have not been individually resolved using a telescope, but the presence of the companion has been inferred from ... The orbital period of the binary system is 4197.7 days (11.5 years) ...
IUPAC Nomenclature Of Inorganic Chemistry 2005 - Compounds - Binary Compounds
... In binary compounds the more electropositive element is placed first in the formula ... Taking the binary compound of sodium and chlorine chlorine is found first in the list so therefore comes last in the name ...

More definitions of "binary":

  • (adj): Of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base.
    Example: "A binary digit"
  • (noun): A system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation.
    Synonyms: binary star, double star