binarize

English

Etymology

From binary +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. (mathematics) To represent in binary (base 2) notation
2. To convert (an image) to only black and white.
3. (statistics) To dichotomize a variable.
4. To treat or represent a distinction as a binary or dichotomy.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 5:

     How irony's conceptual doubling allows it to disrupt the binarized logic of despair/hope

Related terms

• binarization
• debinarize