Digital vs. Binary

Digital vs. Binary — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Digital and Binary

Digitaladjective

Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.

Binaryadjective

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.

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

Digitaladjective

Property of representing values as discrete, usually binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

digital computer;digital clock

Binaryadjective

(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.

Digitaladjective

Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.

Binaryadjective

Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

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Digitalnoun

(finance) A digital option.

Binaryadjective

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

Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.

Digitalnoun

(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.

He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.

Binaryadjective

Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

Division of reals is a binary operation.

Digitalnoun

(music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

Binaryadjective

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

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

A finger.

Binaryadjective

(comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.

He has a very binary understanding of gender.

Digitaladjective

of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;

digital computer

Binarynoun

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

Digitaladjective

displaying numbers rather than scale positions;

digital clockdigital readout

Binarynoun

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

Digitaladjective

relating to or performed with the fingers;

digital examination

Binarynoun

(computing) An executable computer file.

Binarynoun

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

Binarynoun

a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation

Binaryadjective

of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base;

a binary digit

Binaryadjective

consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) or based on two;

a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each othera binary compoundthe binary number system has two as its base