binary
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- noun
- /ˈbaɪnəri/
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binario
- The discussion about gender identity challenges traditional binary classifications of male and female.
- gender binary
- male-female binary
- traditional binary
It's not so simple as a binary, this versus that.
- It's not so simple as a binary, this versus that.
- But we're now in this culture where everything is binary, bad, good, right, wrong, etcetera.
- No binaries, no false praise or bullshit.
- Yeah, it's it's a lot more complex than that binary.
- Our brain doesn't want to see nuance because it's easier for us to think in binary.
- It's no, it's no longer just so simple as men, women, you know, binaries.
- He gives us a, a simple binary of impure language and pure language.
- The the and I didn't put this in there, but I should have the dyad of perpetrator victim binaries, right?
- So the solution isn't just a sort of binary, you know, XX does Y.
- You can do both and the the fact that it's being presented as even there's some binary that a woman has to choose makes me insane.
Examples
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It's not just a binary one or the other, at least in your lived experience.
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But we're now in this culture where everything is binary, bad, good, right, wrong, etcetera.
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Like when we create a binary, we force people to choose one thing or the other.
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Straight becomes the positive, or accepted, side of the binary, and gay is the negative side.
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I am this person who is in between, who is separate from these binary categories that we have.
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It's not so simple as a binary, this versus that.
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We hear the binary we're either in a recession or we're not.
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But in Nigeria, at least, the binaries are not so clear.
Academic text (2006) -
Nonetheless, their focus still tends to be confined to a binary between the Chinese and white Americans.
Academic text (2003) -
You know, the binaries of the good and bad, the right and wrong, the should and shouldn't.
Synonyms
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A clear difference between two opposite ideas, for example good and bad
Antonyms
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A range of things where nearby parts seem the same and the ends are very different
Compounds
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A system that uses 0s and 1s to show text and instructions in computers
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Two stars in space that move around a shared point because they pull on each other
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A computer file that stores data in a non-text form for programs to read
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An operation with two inputs that gives a true or false result
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A single computer file of data that programs cannot easily read or change
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A way to write numbers and information using only the digits 0 and 1
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A number system that uses only the numbers 0 and 1, often used by computers
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A rule that combines two values into one result, like addition or AND
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Average number of binary digits needed to show one digit in another number system
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A way of writing numbers using only the digits 0 and 1
How Simplistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
binary = bi (transparent) = bi + bin + ary
Expresses the idea of a pair or duality by combining 'bi-' (two) with '-ary'; this philosophical/social usage follows directly from 'two'.
Etymology
Binary comes from the Latin part bi- meaning 'two', just like in bicycle. In social and philosophical talk a binary is a pair of opposite categories (for example 'male' and 'female'), so the word names a 'two-part' view.