binary
adjective› consisting of two parts
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Meaning of binary in English
(Definition of “binary” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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- Binary system, a double star, the component parts of which revolve around their centre of gravity.
- But she could not take her eyes from those two black objects revolving like binary stars, until her breath should cease to come and go, and her heart to beat.
- The matter is put in a binary 'pro-con' manner.
"binary" in American English
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"binary" in Business English
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The mapping between surface and lexical levels is reduced to a single function call and two simple conversions from text to binary, and vice versa.
This data set had binary random-dot stereograms (40% dot density) that included transparent surfaces.
In this paper, we will focus on recursive trees and binary search trees as underlying classes of trees.
Our refined approaches will also exhibit some universality; we will demonstrate this by showing that they straightforwardly apply to random binary search trees as well.
The binary operator seq evaluates to its second argument if and only if its first argument converges, otherwise the whole seq expression diverges.
These binary variables are coded positive if the symptom score is greater than or equal to 0.5, and zero otherwise.
We now describe a model for the evolution of binary sequences on a tree.
Although it correctly predicts poor performance on object relatives, it wrongly predicts consistent role reversal, namely, a below-chance performance in binary sentence-picture matching.
To explore further the relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents and insecurity, a binary logistic regression model was calibrated.
The final syllable can support a stressed foot since it is binary at the level of the mora.
The earlier binary vowel-quantity contrast was increased with the third term when the quantity of weak syllables was incorporated into the preceding stressed syllable.
In practice, ways of arranging difference are likely to be a mixture of the two, and binary oppositions us:not-us - are always a temptation.
The design and incorporation of the technology already displays an artistic intention regarding gender and other supposedly binary categories.
Such a ' binary ' approach could in principle be extended to vowel sonority.
Practical experience shows that the advantages and disadvantages nearly counterbalance each other: binary heaps are only marginally faster.
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