binaire
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bīnārius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi.nɛʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: binaires, binèrent
Adjective
binaire (plural binaires)
- binary (focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions)
- Synonym: manichéen
- (mathematics) binary
- (computing) binary (concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system)
- (music) binary
- Coordinate term: ternaire
- (gender studies) binary (pertaining to a gender system in which people are categorized, in terms of gender and often also sex, exclusively as either male or female)
- Antonym: non-binaire
Derived terms
- binairement
Noun
binaire m (plural binaires)
- (computing) binary file
Further reading
- “binaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- bénirai