binning

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of bin. Use it after is or was, or to name the action.

   I'm binning these old magazines before we move.

   She is binning the test scores into groups of ten.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   A way of preparing data by putting numbers into small ranges and replacing each with one value for its range.

   Like rounding every price in a store to the nearest dollar.

   Binning turned thousands of exact prices into a few simple price ranges.

   The teacher used binning to group the students' heights before making a chart.

   Similardiscretization

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   Putting finished products into groups based on their features.

   Binning puts the brightest bulbs in one box and the dimmer ones in another.

   Each batch of phones goes through binning before it ships.

   Similargrading, sorting

4. 4
   noununcountable

   Joining the electric charge from pixels that sit next to each other on an image sensor while it is read.

   With binning on the sensor, the camera reads four pixels as one.

   Turn on binning when the stars are too faint to show up.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   Making a digital picture, or any grid of numbers, smaller by turning each small block into one number.

   Binning each block of four pixels into one made the photo much smaller.

   The app uses binning to shrink big scans before it saves them.

6. 6
   noununcountable

   Sorting pieces of DNA data into groups, each one standing for a kind of living thing.

   The lab used binning to sort the DNA pieces from the soil into groups.

   Binning showed that the pond water held DNA from dozens of kinds of tiny creatures.

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