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binomial
English
Etymology
Formed from Late Latin bin?mium + -al. The derivation of bin?mium is unclear. It was used by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. Suggested sources are the Latin n?men (“name”), the Ancient Greek ????? (nomós, “distribution, pasture”), or the Old French nom (“name”). Compare binomy and binominal, as well as the French binôme.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ba??n??.mi.?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ba??no?.mi.?l/
Adjective
binomial (not comparable)
- Consisting of two terms, or parts.
- (statistics) Of or relating to the binomial distribution.
Translations
Noun
binomial (plural binomials)
- (algebra) A polynomial with two terms.
- (algebra) A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
- (taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
Usage notes
- Some people deprecate use of binomial and advocate use only of binominal in taxonomy. See species name for typesetting usage and example.
Synonyms
- (biology, taxonomy): binomen, binomial name, binominal, binominal name, species name
- (algebra): binome
Hypernyms
- (polynomial with two terms): polynomial
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Mobilian
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /bi.no.mi?al/
- (Central) IPA(key): /bi.nu.mi?al/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
binomial (masculine and feminine plural binomials)
- binomial
Related terms
- binomi
Further reading
- “binomial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
binomial (feminine singular binomiale, masculine plural binomiaux, feminine plural binomiales)
- binomial
Derived terms
- nom binomial
Related terms
- binôme
Portuguese
Adjective
binomial m or f (plural binomiais, comparable)
- binomial (consisting of two parts)
Related terms
- binómio, binômio
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bino?mjal/, [bi.no?mjal]
Adjective
binomial (plural binomiales)
- binomial
Related terms
- binomio
Further reading
- “binomial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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binary
English
Etymology
From Late Latin b?n?rius (“consisting of two”), from Latin b?n? (“two-by-two, pair”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ba?.n?.?i/, /?ba?.n??.i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ba?.n?.??/
- Rhymes: -a?n??i, -a?n??i
Adjective
binary (comparative more binary, superlative most binary)
- Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.
- Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
- A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- Division of reals is a binary operation.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- He has a very binary understanding of gender.
Synonyms
- (arity, adicity, rank): dyadic
- (logic of binary states): Boolean
- (related to something with two parts): double, twin; see also Thesaurus:dual
- (of calculations with binary numbers): base-2
Antonyms
- non-binary
- (arbitrary data): ASCII, text
Derived terms
Related terms
- binarily
- binarity
Translations
See also
- unary
- ternary
Noun
binary (countable and uncountable, plural binaries)
- A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values.
- 2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (?ISBN), page 51:
- The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]
- 2012, Scott L. Baugh, Latino American Cinema (?ISBN):
- The “in” versus “out” of this sociological model certainly carries to the admittedly simplistic binary of “good” versus “bad” of stereotypes in fictional works and the scholarly approaches to them.
- 2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (?ISBN), page 51:
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (computing) An executable computer file.
- (astronomy) A satellite system consisting of two stars or other bodies orbiting each other.
Synonyms
- (base 2 numeral system): base 2
- (system of two stars): binary star, double star
Antonyms
- (computing): non-binary
Derived terms
- binary-coded decimal
- visual binary
- X-ray binary
Related terms
- binarism (see there for more)
Translations
See also
- -ary
- decimal
- hexadecimal
- octal
Anagrams
- brainy
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