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non-binary

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English

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A flag with four equal-sized horizontal stripes colored yellow, white, purple and black.
Non-binary pride flag (sense 2)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Fromnon- +‎binary.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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non-binary (notcomparable)

  1. Notbinary.
    • 1986, James O. Hicks,Information Systems in Business: An Introduction, page201:
      Thus digital computers operate directly with digits either at the bit level, which is short for binary digit, or at the byte level where anonbinary digit such as a decimal number or alphabetic character is represented.
    • 2002, Terry L. M. Bartelt,Digital Electronics: An Integrated Laboratory Approach, page112:
      The most common type of encoder is one that converts anonbinary number system into an equivalent binary system.
  2. Having or pertaining to agender identity not represented by thegender binary; not exclusivelymale orfemale;genderqueer.
    Synonym:genderqueer
    Antonyms:binary,gender-binary
    Hyponyms:demiboy,demigirl
    • 2013, Kim Cook, “This thing called gender”, inUp Close and Personal, page85:
      I'm expected to live in a world where[] forms have no or few options fornon-binary people, where finding a GP who understands mynon-binary needs and identity is a challenge.
    • 2017, Jo Green,The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for When Your Partner Transitions,→ISBN:
      [T]he most commonly usednon-binary pronouns are the singular “they/their/theirs”.

Usage notes

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  • The solid form is more than twice as common as the hyphenated one in the American corpus while the hyphenated one wins by factor 3 or more in the British corpus.[1]
  • TheU.S. Government Publising Office Style Manual item 6.29 recommends to spellnon- prefixed words without a hyphen unless an overriding consideration applies.[2]

Derived terms

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Translations

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of a digit, number system, etc: not binary
outside the gender binarysee alsogenderqueer

See also

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Noun

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non-binary (pluralnon-binaries)

  1. (computing) Something which is not abinary; a computer file that is not readable text.
    • 1994 June 7, "Zhar",Don't Post Non-Binaries In alt.binaries.doom,alt.games.doom,Usnet:
      Please don't postnon-binaries into alt.binaries.doom. Pretty please.
  2. (informal) Anon-binary (genderqueer) person.
    Synonyms:enby,NB,(sometimes derogatory)they/them
    Hyponyms:demiboy,demigirl

Usage notes

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  • See the usage note attransgender regarding the use of words of this type as nouns.

References

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  1. ^[non - binary/nonbinary]”, inGoogle Books Ngram Viewer
  2. ^6. Compounding Rules inU.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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