Bilateral vs Binary - What's the difference?
bilateral | binary |
Having two sides
Involving both sides equally.
(of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
Having bilateral symmetry.
(anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.
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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(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
(computing) Of data, consisting coded values not interpretable as plain or ASCII text.
(mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits .
(computing) An executable computer file.
(astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.
As adjectives the difference between bilateral and binary
is that bilateral is bilateral while binary is 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.As a noun binary is
(mathematics|computing|uncountable) the bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits.bilateral
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(en adjective)Derived terms
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(wikipedia binary)Adjective
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- Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
- A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
- Division of reals is a binary operation.
- He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.