WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
bi′nary opera′tion,
- Mathematicsa mathematical operation in which two elements are combined to yield a single result:Addition and multiplication are binary operations on the set of real numbers.Cf. ternary operation, unary operation.
- 1930–35
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