binary code

American  

noun

Computers.

1. a system of representing letters, numbers, or other characters, using binary notation.

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binary code British  

noun

1. computing the representation of each one of a set of numbers, letters, etc, as a unique sequence of bits, as in ASCII

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Example Sentences

A final burst of laser pulses nudges each ion to either fluoresce or not—a flash of binary code that detectors read out as the computation’s solution.

From Science Magazine • May 30, 2024

They're the reason you see an actual picture at the top of this webpage, rather than just an incomprehensible scramble of space data and binary code.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

In living systems, genes act as a biological version of binary code, using the letters A, C, G, and T instead of ones and zeroes to spell out cellular marching orders.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

This is why many attempts, including “Beacon in the Galaxy,” opt to design their letter as a bitmap, a way to use binary code to create a pixelated image.

From Scientific American • Mar. 30, 2022

Put that way, Bacon’s cipher becomes an example of binary code, the language of computers…

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield