Binary format Software Engineering
noun phrase
Definition: A data format in which information is stored in binary form as bytes according to a predefined machine-readable structure, rather than as plain text [LabVIEW User Manual].
Example in context: “We have used the Jaccard coefficient because it is commonly used for binary data and our annotations data is in binary format.” [Kohli, Tiwari 2023]
Related terms: binary file format, serialized binary format