Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

binary system

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables: bi-na-ry sys-tem
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Two gravitationally connected stars or other celestial objects which orbit around their center of mass.

noun

A numeric system with a base of 2, using only the numerals 0 and 1.

Example Sentences

"[S]cientists from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute found subtle dips in the light coming from a binary system about 200 million light years from Earth."
"Quantum cryptography is one of the first applications of quantum physics, which is expected to replace today's binary system of computing, in which data is represented in series of ones and zeros."

Inflected Forms

binary systems (plural)

Phrases

binary star

Frequently Paired Words

binary star

Synonyms

binary numeration system pure binary numeration system binary number system

Questions

What does binary system mean?: Two gravitationally connected stars or other celestial objects which orbit around their center of mass.

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