1 a system of numbers that uses only 0 and 1: --
Spica, over 2000 times as luminous as the Sun, is actually a binary.
Binaries – choice versus life, liberal versus conservative, us versus them – work well in media and politics.
We think of truth and falsehood as a binary: you're either right or you're wrong.
The data is stored in binary, which is then decoded and played back.
2 consisting of two of something --
3 relating to a system of counting, used in computers, in which only the numbers 0 and 1 are used: --
the binary system
5 consisting of two parts: --
Practical experience shows that the advantages and disadvantages nearly counterbalance each other: binary heaps are only marginally faster.
Such a ' binary ' approach could in principle be extended to vowel sonority.
The design and incorporation of the technology already displays an artistic intention regarding gender and other supposedly binary categories.
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 earlier binary vowel-quantity contrast was increased with the third term when the quantity of weak syllables was incorporated into the preceding stressed syllable.
The final syllable can support a stressed foot since it is binary at the level of the mora.
To explore further the relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents and insecurity, a binary logistic regression model was calibrated.
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.
