binary system
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The new research found that the impact also expelled enough material from the binary system to slightly alter its path around the Sun.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
Though he takes a minute to upbraid her, they’re obviously the show’s binary system, and Decker is in any case a cheery sort who takes things in stride — even prison, seemingly.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
This strange new world orbits around two stars at once, which dance around each other in what astronomers call a binary system.
From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025
Nemo’s powerhouse number “The Code” is about struggling to find their place and discovering it “somewhere between the zeroes and ones” of a binary system.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024
It took almost 300 years before hackers, trying to see if they could use the digital for music notation, discovered that images can be described in a binary system.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.