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assumed
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adjective
(= fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham)
adopted in order to deceive
an assumed name
an assumed cheerfulness
a fictitious address
fictive sympathy
a pretended interest
a put-on childish voice
sham modesty
binary
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adjective
of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
a binary digit
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adjective
consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other
a binary compound
the binary number system has two as its base
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noun
a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems
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noun
(= binary star)
a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
point
Noun
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A point is a position with no size, or a small dot.
These two lines meet at this point.
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A point is the sharp end of a knife or other sharp thing.
He used the point of the knife to make a hole in the can.
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The point of something is the reason or purpose for it.
The whole point of coming here was to plant this tree, so let's not go home without doing it.
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A point is a dot between two numbers. To the dot's right, you find a decimal.
The price has gone up by two point five percent.
point
Verb
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To point at something is to hold one finger (or a stick, arrow or other long, thin thing) in the direction of the thing so that people will look at the thing.
He pointed her toward the gate.