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Binary  adj.  Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc.
Binary compound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements.
Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is the logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as in the common logarithms, and the modulus 1.442695 instead of.43429448.
Binary measure (Mus.), measure divisible by two or four; common time.
Binary nomenclature (Nat. Hist.), nomenclature in which the names designate both genus and species.
Binary scale (Arith.), a uniform scale of notation whose ratio is two.
Binary star (Astron.), a double star whose members have a revolution round their common center of gravity.
Binary theory (Chem.), the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.





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"Binary" Quotes from Famous Books



... are so situated in the mouth that the mucous membrane forms a connecting conductor and the fluids are capable of acting on one metal, galvanic action is established sufficient to decompose any of the binary compounds contained in these fluids; the liberated nitrogen and hydrogen form ammonia, which being exposed to the action of oxygen is decomposed and nitric oxid formed, resulting in nitric acid. We also have in the mouth air, moisture, and decomposing nitrogenous food to assist ...
— Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth • Henry L. Ambler
... This results from the fact, that doubling or folding is the only direct mode of dividing real quantities into equal parts, and that balancing is the nearest indirect mode,—two facts that go far to prove binary division to be proper to weights, measures, and coins. Moreover, use evidently requires things to be divided by two more frequently than by any other number,—a fact apparently due to a natural agreement between men ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... hundred double suns, only fifty of which were known to be in revolution. Since then, enormous advance has been made. The micrometer has been improved into an instrument of great delicacy, and the number of doubles has swelled to ten thousand; six hundred and fifty of them being known to be binary, or revolving on orbits—Prof. S. W. Burnham, the distinguished young astronomer of the Dearborn Observatory, Chicago, having discovered eight hundred within the last eight years. This discovery implies stupendous motion; every fixed star is a sun like our own, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... Jesus. His teaching clearly was that the perfect individuality of Man is a Dual-Unity, the polarisation of the Infinite in the Manifest; and it requires only the recognition of this truth for the manifested element in this binary system to demonstrate its identity with the corresponding element which is not externally visible. He said that He and his Father were One, that those who had seen him had seen the Father, that the words which he spoke were the Father's, and that it was the ...
— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward


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