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Billy Tauzin III Wilbert Joseph "Billy" Tauzin III was born in 1971, son of Billy Tauzin. After some time in the United States Coast Guard and the private sector, Tauzin was selected by the Republican Party establishment to fill the open seat caused by his father's 2004 retirement from the United States House of Representatives.
Billy Thermal Billy Thermal is a band formed by hit songwriter Billy Steinberg in 1979. The name Billy Thermal comes from the vineyards located in Thermal, California where Steinberg's father Lionel Steinberg owned Freedman Farms.
Billy Thomas Billy Thomas (born December 23 1975 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He went undrafted after graduating from the University of Kansas in 1998 and began his NBA career during the 2004-2005 season with the New Jersey Nets.
Billy Thompson (basketball) William (Billy) Stansbury Thompson (born December 1 1963 in Camden, New Jersey) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. He spent a 5-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, and registered one minute of court time with the Golden State Warriors in 1991.
Billy Thompson (hockey player) Billy Thompson (born September 24, 1982 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is an ice-hockey goaltender in the New York Islanders' organization. He started the 2005-06 NHL season with Ottawa's affiliate Binghamton Senators of the AHL.
Billy TK Billy TK (Billy Te Kahika) is a Māori guitarist, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has often been touted as the Māori Jimi Hendrix, and is one of the most respected and technically proficient guitarists in New Zealand today.
Billy Tubbs Billy Tubbs (March 5, 1935 – ) is a college men's basketball coach. The Tulsa, Oklahoma native has been the head coach of his alma mater Lamar University (1976-1980), the University of Oklahoma (1980-1994) and Texas Christian University (1994-2002).
Billy Vessels Billy Vessels (March 22, 1931, Cleveland, Oklahoma - November 17, 2001, Coral Gables, Florida) was an outstanding college football player and winner of the 1952 Heisman trophy, as well as a professional football player with the NFL Baltimore Colts and the Canadian Football League Edmonton Eskimos.
Billy Wagner William Edward Wagner (born July 25, 1971 in Tannersville, Virginia) is a American Major League Baseball closer for the New York Mets. Previously, Wagner pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies (2004-2005) and the Houston Astros (1995-2003).
Billy Waugh SGM William "Billy" Waugh (US Army-Ret.) (born December, 1929), is a highly decorated American Special Forces soldier and Central Intelligence Agency covert operative who served in the United States military and intelligence fields for more than fifty years.
Billy Wedlock William 'Billy' John Wedlock (October 28, 1880 - January 25, 1965) also known as "Fatty" or the "India Rubber Man" was a footballer who played for Bristol City in 1900-01 and from 1905 until his retirement in 1921. He was a centre-half whose skill outweighed his short and stout stature.
Billy Werber William Murray Werber (born June 20 1908 in Berwyn Heights, Maryland) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees (1930, 1933), Boston Red Sox (1933-1936), Philaldelphia Athletics (1937-1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939-1941) and New York Giants (1942). He batted and threw right-handed.
Billy Whitehurst William "Billy" Whitehurst was an English professional footballer during the 1980s-1990s and was widely regarded as the hardest man to have played the game. Respected BBC football pundit Alan Hansen claims that Whitehurst was the hardest footballer he played against, whilst other notable football hardmen Neil "Razor" Ruddock and Vinnie Jones have both stated that Whitehurst was the hardest opponent they faced.
Billy Whizz Billy Whizz is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, first appearing in issue 1139, dated 16 May 1964, when it replaced The Country Cuzzins. Billy, the title character, is a boy who can run extraordinarily fast.
Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22 1906 – March 27 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.
Billy Williams (singer) Billy Williams was a singer who had a hugely successful recording Fats Waller's "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" in 1957. His trademark hook for his songs was to shout "Oh, Yeah" at the end of lyrics.
Billy Williams (spammer) Billy W. Williams is a businessman in Kailua, Hawaii who is currently being sued by Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of the state of Texas, for allegedly sending thousands of spam e-mails to Texas citizens, as well as others across the United States.
Billy Williamson Billy Williamson (formal name William F. Williamson; February 9, 1925 – March 22, 1996) was the steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets from 1949 to 1963.
Billy Wright (loyalist) Billy Wright (July 7, 1960 – December 27, 1997) was a Northern Irish paramilitary a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force] (UVF) and leader of the extremist [[Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). He was killed by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) group in 1997.
Billy's Boots Billy's Boots was a popular British comic strip by writer Fred Baker and artist John Gillatt, later continued by Mike Western. The comic appeared for the first time in the first issue of Scorcher in 1970, and later moved to Tiger when the two comics merged in 1974.
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss is a 1998 independent, gay-themed, romantic comedy film written and directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung and Meredith Scott Lynn. The film was a breakthrough performance for Hayes, who would go from this film to his role as Jack McFarland on the hit television show Will & Grace.
Billy-bob teeth Billy-bob teeth are an inexpensive novelty item sold in supermarkets, gas stations, and hobby outlets. They are designed to resemble the teeth of a stereotypical redneck for humorous effect, containing exaggerated gaps between teeth, decay and having a slightly yellow discoloration.
Billymann Billy Mann (real name: William Hort Mann born "Erlichman") was originally a singer/songwriter, now record producer/songwriter and entrepreneur who started his career living in a car and playing in dive bars. This year The New York Times' online ABOUT.
Bilohirsk Bilohirsk (, , ), formerly Karasubazar is a town in Crimea, Ukraine, situated 25 miles east-northeast of Simferopol on the Biyuk Karasu river. Both Russian and Ukrainian names mean "white mountains", and original Crimean Tatar name Qarasuvbazar means "bazaar on the Karasu river".
Bilovec Bilovec ( -Czech: BĂ­lovec; German: Wagstadt ), is a town/city in the Novy Jicin Region in northern Moravian-Silesian Region . It is situated at the declination of Nizky Jesenik (Carpathian mountains) mountains and at the banks of the Bilovka river.
Biloxi Blues Biloxi Blues, a play by Neil Simon, is the second in what is known as Simon's Eugene Trilogy, the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs, and the third being Broadway Bound. In it, Eugene Jerome, a teen in 1945 New York City, enlists in the Army in what would turn out to be the last year of World War II.
Biloxi High School Biloxi High School is the only public high school located in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi. The Biloxi School District boasts being the first district in the nation to install cameras in every classroom,https://www.
Bilsdale transmitting station The Bilsdale transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, located at Bilsdale West Moor, close to Helmsley, North Yorkshire — UK . It includes a guyed steel tubular mast that is primarily used for radio and television transmission.
Bilston (UK Parliament constituency) Bilston was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Bilston in what is now the southeast of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire Bilton (or Bilton-in-Holderness) is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles East of Hull city centre on the B1238 and ajoining the village of Wyton.
Biltong Biltong is a South African dried meat (mainly beef, game, or ostrich) typically made from raw fillets of meat cut into strips following the grain of the muscle, or flat pieces sliced across the grain. It is similar to beef jerky in that they are both spiced dried meats, but differs significantly in typical ingredients, taste, and production process.
Bilu Bilu (; acronym based on a verse from the Book of Isaiah (2:5) "בית יעקב לכו ונלכה" "Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Ve-nelkha" ("House of Jacob, let us go [up]") was a group of Jewish idealists aspiring to settle in the Land of Israel with the political purpose to redeem Eretz Yisrael and re-establish the Jewish State on it.
Bilunabirotunda In geometry, the bilunabirotunda is one of the Johnson solids (J91). It is one of the elementary Johnson solids that do not arise from "cut and paste" manipulations of the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
Bim Bom Bim Bom was a Moscow Circus clown known for making jokes about prominent figures of the new Communist government in Russia. In 1918, the Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky attempted to arrest Bim Bom during a performance.
Bim Skala Bim Bim Skala Bim, formed in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of America's initial responses to Britain's 2-Tone movement in the early '80s. They made several albums, started their own music label to release the music of other aspiring ska bands, and remained active through 2002.
Bimagic square In mathematics, a bimagic square is a magic square that also remains magic if all of the numbers it contains are squared. The first known bimagic square has order 8 and magic constant 260; it has been conjectured by Bensen and Jacoby that no nontrivial bimagic squares of order less than 8 exist.
Bimah A bimah (among Ashkenazim) or tebah (among Sephardim) is the elevated area or platform in a Jewish synagogue which is intended to serve as the place where the person reading aloud from the Torah stands during the Torah reading service. The bimah is sometimes described as an altar or tower.
Bimal Jalan Bimal Jalan (born 1941) was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India for two terms. The Government of India reappointed Jalan as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, first for a period of two years commencing November 22, 2000 to November 21, 2002 and again for a further period of two years commencing from November 22, 2002 and ending November 21, 2004.
Bimal Krishna Matilal Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991) was an Indian philosopher whose influential writings present the Indian philosophical tradition as being concerned with the same issues as have been the theme in Western philosophy. From 1977 to 1991 he
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bangla:বিমান বাংলাদেশ ) is an airline based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the national airline and operates domestic services and international routes to Asia, Europe and North America.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines cricket team The Biman Bangladesh Airlines cricket team was a first-class cricket team in Bangladesh that played in only the inaugural 2000-01 domestic season and won both of the two major domestic trophies. The team was sponsored by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the government-owned airliner of Bangladesh.
Bimaristan Biarmistan is a Persian word meaning hospital, with Bimar meaning disease and stan as location. Although it is thought that the prophet, Muhamed ordered the establishment of Baristans, the first Biarmistan was founded in 707 A.
Bimatoprost Bimatoprost ophthalmic solution is a topical medication used for controlling the progression of glaucoma or ocular hypertension, by reducing intraocular pressure. It is a prostaglandin analogue that works by increasing the outflow of aqueous fluid from the eyes.
Bimetallism In economics, bimetallism is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit can be expressed either with a certain amount of gold or with a certain amount of silver. The ratio between the two metals is fixed by law.
Bimetric theory In general relativity, it is assumed that the distance between two points in spacetime is given by the metric tensor. Einstein's field equations are then used to calculate the form of the metric based on the distribution of energy.
Bimini Bimini (Bi-mini), meaning, Mother of Many Waters, Bibi (Mother) and Mini (Waters), is a term and name in the Taino Native American Indian language of the Caribbean islands and is the original Pre-Columbian Taino Arawak name for the present day U.S.
Bimkom Bimkom ("Planners for Planning Rights") is an Israeli non-profit group established in May 1999 by planners and architects who sought to include human rights concerns in their spatial and urban planning work. It actively campaigns for greater public involvement in the planning process.
Bimodal Bilingualism in the American Deaf Community Bimodal bilingualism refers to an individual or community's bilingual competency in (at least) one spoken language and (at least) one signed language (spoken and signed are the "modes" to which "bimodal" refers). Bimodal bilingualism is often also referred to as d/Deaf bilingualism, but that term is somewhat misleading, as one need not be d/Deaf (culturally or audiologically) to be bimodally bilingual (for example, Children of Deaf Adults or other hearing people who learn sign language for various reasons).
Bimodal distribution In statistics, a bimodal distribution is a continuous probability distribution with two different modes. These appear as distinct peaks (local maxima) in the probability density function, as shown in Figure 1.
Bimodality Bimodality is the simultaneous use of two distinct pitch collections. It is more general than bitonality since the "scales" involved need not be traditional scales; if diatonic collections are involved, their pitch centers need not be the familiar major and minor-scale tonics.
Bimodule In abstract algebra a bimodule is an abelian group that is both a left and a right module, such that the left and right multiplications are compatible. Besides appearing naturally in many parts of mathematics, bimodules play a clarifying role, in the sense that many of the relationships between left and right modules become simpler when they are expressed in terms of bimodules.
Bimonthly Bimonthly is a reference to an event that occurs once every two months. An example of a bimonthly event would be the production of some magazines, that have lower subscription numbers or other budgetary or content restrictions, which would total 6 issues per year rather than the more common weekly (once per week), bi-weekly (every two weeks) and monthly (once per month) printings.
Bin bag A bin bag or bin liner (British English) or garbage bag, trash bag, or also can liner (American English) is a bag used to line the insides of waste containers to prevent the insides of the receptacle from becoming coated in waste material. Most bags nowadays are made out of plastic.
Bin bug The term "bin bug" was coined in August 2006 by the British media to refer to the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips by some local councils to monitor the amount of domestic waste created by each household. If the pilot schemes are successful it is expected that most British cities will introduce the system in the next two years.
Bin Laden (song) "Bin Laden" is a hip hop song by MC Immortal Technique and DJ Green Lantern. It features guest appearances from Mos Def, a sample of Jadakiss and a sample of Eminem (only included on the mixtape version).
Bin Laden family The bin Laden family (), also spelt bin Ladin, is an immensely wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. The family was thrown into media spotlight through the activities of one of its members, Osama bin Laden.
Bin packing problem In computational complexity theory, the bin packing problem is a combinatorial NP-hard problem. In it, objects of different volumes must be packed into a finite number of bins of capacity V in a way that minimizes the number of bins used.
Bin Qasim Town Bin Qasim Town is a town located in the southeastern part of Karachi along the Arabian Sea and the Indus River delta. The town and the adjacent Port Qasim are named after Muhammad bin Qasim who conquered large parts of Pakistan in the eighth century CE.
Bina Rai Bina Rai (Hindi: बिन रै, Urdu: بِن رے) was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era. She claimed that she went on a hunger strike in order to convince her disapproving parents to let her join films, and they finally relented.
Binačko Pomoravlje Binačko Pomoravlje (Биначко поморавље) is a large basin around the river of Binačka Morava, most of which is located in the southeast of the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the smaller part is located in Central Serbia.
Binaca Geetmala Binaca Geetmala was a highly popular weekly radio countdown show of top filmi songs from Indian cinema listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, that was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1994. It was the first radio countdown show of Indian film songs,Back on air with Geetmala.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1970 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1970. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1971 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1971. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1972 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1972. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1973 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1971. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1974 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1974. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1975 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1975. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1976 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1976. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1977 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1977. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1978 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1978. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1979 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1979. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binaca Geetmala annual list 1980 The following is an annual list of the year-end chart toppers of the Radio Ceylon radio show Binaca Geetmala for 1980. Binaca Geetmala was a very popular radio show that counted down the popular film songs from Indian cinema on a weekly basis, listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, just like US Billboard Countdown Top 100 list of songs.
Binah (Kabbalah) Binah, (meaning "Understanding"; בינה), in the Kabbalah of Judaism, is the second intellectual Sephirah on the tree of life. It sits on the level below Keter (in the formulations that include that Sephirah), across from Chokmah and directly above Gevurah.
Binalot In the Philippines, especially in the provinces, the locals have the unique way of serving food wrapped in banana leaves. This method of storing or packing food is termed binalot which originated from the word balot meaning wrapped.
Binary blob A binary blob is a term used by some open source developers to describe an opaque binary object for which no source code is available. In some operating system communities, such as those of Ubuntu and OpenBSD, the term refers to partial or complete drivers provided by companies such as ATI and NVIDIA to provide support for their hardware.
Binary clock A binary clock is a clock which displays traditional sexagesimal time in a binary format. Originally, it showed each decimal digit of sexadecimal time as a binary value, but presently true binary clocks also exist.
Binary cycle technology Binary cycle technology is a method for generating electrical power from geothermal water sources, where the water temperature is in the range of 300 - 350°F, or below the boiling point (100°C) of water. Typical geothermal steam plants are used when the temperature of the underground water reservoir is above 350°F, as they are less expensive to build and operate.
Binary decision diagram A binary decision diagram (BDD), like a negation normal form (NNF) or a propositional directed acyclic graph (PDAG), is a data structure that is used to represent a Boolean function. A Boolean function can be represented as a rooted, directed, acyclic graph,
Binary delta compression Binary delta conversion or BDC is a technology used in software update deployment. While downloading large amounts of data over the internet for software-updating means can induce high network traffic problems, especially when a network of computers is involved, BDC technology allows a major reduction of download size by only transferring the difference between the old and the new files during the update process.
Binary entropy function In information theory, the binary entropy function, denoted H(p) or H_{mathrm b}(p), is defined as the entropy of a Bernoulli trial with probability of success p. Mathematically, the Bernoulli trial is modelled as a random variable X that can take on only two values: 0 and 1.
Binary erasure channel In coding theory, a binary erasure channel (or BEC) is an idealized model of a communications channel that carries bits. Bits are either received without change or are converted to an erasure (at a known position).
Binary explosive A binary explosive or two-component explosive is an explosive consisting of two elements, neither of which is dangerous of itself, and have to be mixed in order to become explosive. ANFO is an example of a binary explosive.
Binary Economics Binary economics is a new, highly modern, economics which, uniquely, combines efficiency with a specific social and economic justice. In binary economics, the justice creates the efficiency and the efficiency creates the justice.
Binary file A binary file is a computer file which may contain any type of data, encoded in binary form for computer storage and processing purposes; for example, computer document files containing formatted text. Many binary file formats contain parts that can be interpreted as text; binary files that contain only textual data - without, for example, any formatting information - are called plain text files.
Binary fission Binary fission is the form of asexual reproduction,in single-celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells of the same size, used by most prokaryotes and protists to reproduce. This process results in the reproduction of a living cell by division into two equal or near-equal parts.
Binary File Descriptor The Binary File Descriptor library, most commonly seen as just BFD, is the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. As of 2003, it supports approximately 50 file formats for some 25 processor architectures.
Binary Format Description language The Binary Format Description (BFD) language is an extension of XSIL which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public URLs. A template written in the BFD language can be applied to a binary data file to produce a file with that data formatted with descriptive XML tags.
Binary GCD algorithm The binary GCD algorithm is an algorithm which computes the greatest common divisor of two nonnegative integers. It gains a measure of efficiency over the ancient Euclidean algorithm by replacing divisions and multiplications with shifts, which are cheaper when operating on the binary representation used by modern computers.
Binary Golay code In mathematics and computer science, a binary Golay code is a type of error-correcting code used in digital communications. The binary Golay code, along with the ternary Golay code, has a particularly deep and interesting connection to the theory of finite sporadic groups in mathematics.
Binary chemical weapon Binary chemical weapons or munitions are chemical weapons wherein the toxic agent is not contained within the weapon in its active state, but in the form of two chemical precursors, physically separated within the weapon. The precursors are designed to be significantly less toxic than the agent they make when mixed, and this allows the weapon to be transported and stored more safely than otherwise.
Binary Land Binary Land is a 1985 Famicom and MSX game developed by Hudson Soft where the player has to unite two penguins, Gurin (male) and Malon (female), who are in love. Standing in their way are spiders, birds and other nasty things which the player must attack with the penguins' spray.
Binary matrix In mathematics, particularly matrix theory, a binary matrix is either (usually) a matrix whose entries are zeros or ones belonging to any field (this is also called a (0,1)-matrix), or (especially in matroid theory) a matrix whose elements belong to the two-element Galois field GF(2).
Binary multiplier A Binary multiplier is an electronic hardware device used in digital electronics or a computer or other electronic device to perform rapid multiplication of two numbers in binary representation. It is built using binary adders
Binary name In botanical nomenclature, the ICBN prescribes a two-part name or binary name for any taxon below the rank of genus down to, and including the rank of species. Taxa below the rank of species (infraspecific taxa) get a three part name (ternary name).
Binary numeral system The binary numeral system (base 2 numerals), or bin for short, represents numeric values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual binary numeral system is a positional notation with a radix of 2.
Binary operation In mathematics, a binary operation is a calculation involving two input quantities, in other words, an operation whose arity is two. Binary operations can be accomplished using either a binary function or binary operator.
Binary opposition In critical theory, a binary opposition is a pair of theoretical opposites, often organized in a hierarchy. In structuralism, the binary opposition is thought to be a powerful tool to explain the fundamental structure of human thought, culture, and language.
Binary option A binary option is a type of option where the payoff is either some fixed amount of some asset or nothing at all. The two main types of binary options are the cash-or-nothing binary option and the asset-or-nothing binary option.
Binary point The binary point is simply the binary equivalent of the decimal point. It is used in textual representations of binary numbers to designate the transisition from integer digit locations (where values represent non-negative powers of 2) to fractional digit locations (where values represent negative powers of 2).
Binary prefix In computing, binary prefixes (IEC 60027-2/IEEE 1541) can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten. Each successive prefix is multiplied by 1024 (210) rather than the 1000 (103) used by the SI prefix system.

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