nonbinary

text: Thus digital computers operate directly with digits either at the bit level, which is short for binary digit, or at the byte level where a nonbinary digit such as a decimal number or alphabetic character is represented.

ref: 1986, James O. Hicks, Information Systems in Business: An Introduction, page 201:

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text: The most common type of encoder is one that converts a nonbinary number system into an equivalent binary system.

ref: 2002, Terry L. M. Bartelt, Digital Electronics: An Integrated Laboratory Approach, page 112:

text: So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.

ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:

links: non-binary non-binary#English

pos: adj

en-adj

expansion: nonbinary (not comparable)

etymology_text: From non- + binary.

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binary

expansion: non- + binary


nonbinary

pos: noun

en-noun

expansion: nonbinary (plural nonbinaries)

forms: nonbinaries (plural)