Definition of "binarize"

binarize

verb
third-person singular simple present binarizes, present participle binarizing, simple past and past participle binarized
1. (mathematics) To represent in binary (base 2) notation
2. To convert (an image) to only black and white.
3. (statistics) To dichotomize a variable.
4. To treat or represent a distinction as a binary or dichotomy.
  Quotations
  How irony's conceptual doubling allows it to disrupt the binarized logic of despair/hope
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 5