| search and rescue mission | a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them |
| search | an investigation seeking answers, a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing, the outcome justified the search |
| search | boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas, right of search |
search
hunt hunting | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| strip search | searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes |
| search mission | a mission to discover something |
| search and destroy mission | an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam, troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them |
| air search radar | a shipboard radar that searches for aircraft |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
| freedom from search and seizure | a right guaranteed by the th amendment to the US Constitution |
| right of search | the right of a belligerent to stop neutral ships on the high seas in wartime and search them |
| search | the examination of alternative hypotheses, his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful |
| binary code | code using a string of binary digits to represent characters |
| binary file | (computer science) a computer file containing machineeadable information that must be read by an application, characters use all bits of each byte |
| search warrant | a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court, the warrant describes the locations where the officials may search |
binary
binary program | a preompiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system, a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system, the same source code can be compiled to produce different binaries for different operating systems |
| search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
| binary notation | any notation that uses characters (usually
and ) |
binary numeration system
pure binary numeration system
binary number system
binary system | a positional system of numeration that uses binary digits and a radix of two |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
| search party | a party of people to search for someone |
binary star
binary
double star | a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation |
boolean operation
binary operation
binary arithmetic operation | an operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra, each operand and the result take one of two values |
search
lookup | an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property, they wrote a program to do a table lookup |
| equivalent-binary-digit factor | the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary, on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes .N binary digits |
| binary digit | either
or in binary notation |
| binary compound | chemical compound composed of only two elements |
research
search
explore | inquire into, the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project, He searched for information on his relatives on the web, Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness |
search
seek
look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of, The police are searching for clues, They are searching for the missing man in the entire county |
| search | subject to a search, The police searched the suspect, We searched the whole house for the missing keys |
| strip-search | search (someone) for weapons or drugs by having the person remove their clothes, He was strip-searched at the airport |
search
look | search or seek, We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest, Look elsewhere for the perfect gift! |
| binary | consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms), a binary star is a system in which two stars revolve around each other, a binary compound, the binary number system has two as its base |
| binary | of or pertaining to a number system have as its base, a binary digit |