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 The plugin mechanism is used everywhere in GStreamer, even if only the
 standard packages are being used. A few very basic functions reside in
 the core library, and all others are implemented in plugins. A plugin
-registry is used to store the details of the plugins in an binary
+registry is used to store the details of the plugins in a binary
 registry file. This way, a program using GStreamer does not have to load
 all plugins to determine which are needed. Plugins are only loaded when
 their provided elements are requested.