Meanings
plural binary systems
- astronomyTwo gravitationally connected stars or other celestial objects which orbit around their center of mass.
[S]cientists from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute found subtle dips in the light coming from a binary system about 200 million light years from Earth.
2011 December 7, Jeffrey Kluger, “Star Wars Gets Real”, in Time - computingA numeric system with a base of 2, using only the numerals 0 and 1.
Quantum cryptography is one of the first applications of quantum physics, which is expected to replace today's binary system of computing, in which data is represented in series of ones and zeros.
2004 January 28, Jennifer L. Schenker, “A quantum leap in codes for secure transmissions”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna positional system of numeration that uses binary digits and a radix of two
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 二進制 /二进制
- 二進制 /二进制 (èrjìnzhì)math, computing: numeric system with base 2
Finnish binaarijärjestelmä
- binaarijärjestelmämath, computing: numeric system with base 2
Japanese 二進法
- 二進法 (nishinhō)math, computing: numeric system with base 2
Polish binarny system
- binarny systemmath, computing: numeric system with base 2
Welsh system ddeuaidd
- system ddeuaiddmath, computing: numeric system with base 2
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