ALL meanings of binaries
bi·na·ry
B b - abbreviation Technical meaning of BINARIES binary file 3
- adjective binaries consisting of, indicating, or involving two. 1
- adjective binaries Mathematics. of or relating to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation, since 58 = 1 × 2 5 + 1 × 2 4 + 1 × 2 3 + 0 × 2 2 + 1 × 2 1 + 0 × 2 0 . of or relating to the digits or numbers used in binary notation. of or relating to a binary system. (of an operation) assigning a third quantity to two given quantities, as in the addition of two numbers. 1
- adjective binaries Computers. of, relating to, or written in binary code; programmed or encoded using only the digits 0 and 1: All executable programs on the computer are stored in binary files. 1
- adjective binaries Chemistry. noting a compound containing only two elements or groups, as sodium chloride, methyl bromide, or methyl hydroxide. 1
- adjective binaries Metallurgy. (of an alloy) having two principal constituents. 1
- noun plural binaries a whole composed of two. 1
- noun plural binaries Mathematics. a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2: to convert decimal to binary. 1
- noun plural binaries Also called binary number. Mathematics. a number expressed in the binary system of notation. 1
- noun plural binaries Computers. binary code. 1
- noun plural binaries Computers. an executable file stored in binary format. 1
- noun plural binaries Astronomy. binary star. 1
- noun Technical meaning of binaries (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them. 1
- noun binaries plural of binary. 0