binarization

English

Etymology

From binary +‎ -ization.

Noun

binarization (countable and uncountable, plural binarizations)

  1. Conversion of a picture to only black and white.
  2. (computing) Conversion of a tree to one with at most two children per node.
  3. Conversion of a formal grammar to one where each rewriting rule has at most two nonterminals on its right-hand side.
  4. Treatment of something as a binary, a dichotomy.
    • 2001, Steven Angelides, A History of Bisexuality, page 169:
      […] to complicate and challenge the binarization of sexual identity.
    • 2023, Sean Metzger, Roberta Mock, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre, page 22:
      […] in some cultural contexts the binarization of gender is less pronounced and its effects less injurious than in hegemonic American discourse.

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