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binarise

binarise is the alternative spelling of binarize.

Meaning of binarize

Verb

binarize (third-person singular simple present binarizes, present participle binarizing, simple past and past participle binarized)

  1. To represent in binary (base 2) notation
  2. To convert (an image) to only black and white.
  3. To dichotomize a variable.
  4. To treat or represent a distinction as a binary or dichotomy.
    • How irony's conceptual doubling allows it to disrupt the binarized logic of despair/hope2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 5

Forms of binarise

third-person singular presentbinarises
present participlebinarising
past participlebinarised
pastbinarised

Questions about binarise

What is binarise the alternative spelling of?
Binarise is the alternative spelling of binarize.

Words near binarise in the dictionary

  1. binariness
  2. binarion
  3. binarions
  4. binarisation
  5. binarisations
  6. binarise
  7. binarised
  8. binarises
  9. binarising
  10. binarism
  11. binarisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: binarise (page history and authors); binarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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