The difference between Binary and Binary star

When used as nouns, binary means a thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values, whereas binary star means a stellar system in which two stars orbit around their center of mass.

Binary is also adjective with the meaning: 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.

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  1. Binary as an adjective:

    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.

    Examples:

    "Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science."

  2. Binary as an adjective (logic):

    Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.

  3. Binary as an adjective (arithmetic, computing):

    Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

  4. Binary as an adjective:

    Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

    Examples:

    "Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison."

    "A binary statistical distribution has only two categories."

  5. Binary as an adjective (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.

    Examples:

    "Division of reals is a binary operation."

  6. Binary as an adjective (computing):

    Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).

    Examples:

    "He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD."

  7. Binary as an adjective (comparable):

    Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.

    Examples:

    "He has a very binary understanding of gender."

  1. Binary as a noun:

    A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values.

  2. Binary as a noun (mathematics, computing, uncountable):

    The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

  3. Binary as a noun (computing):

    An executable computer file.

  4. Binary as a noun (astronomy):

    A satellite system consisting of two stars or other bodies orbiting each other.

  1. Binary star as a noun (astronomy):

    A stellar system in which two stars orbit around their center of mass; double star.

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