Etymology

duobinary

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Today it means: Being, or pertaining to, a bipolar encoding in which the ones are represented alternately by positive and negative voltages. Full definition →

English binary ← Latin duo ← Proto-Italic *duō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Italic*duō
  3. Latinduo
  4. Englishduo-
  5. Englishbinary
  6. English todayduobinary

From duo- + binary.

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