trinary
/ˈtraɪnəri/
noun
- A group or set of three things; a triad.
- The team worked as a trinary, each member handling one part of the project.
- In music, a trinary is a chord made of three notes.
- The three colors formed a trinary in the painting.
adjective
- Consisting of three parts or elements; threefold.
- The trinary classification helped organize the data into three clear groups.
- The trinary system uses three digits instead of two.
- The ancient symbol had a trinary structure of three interlocking circles.
- Relating to a number system with base three.
- The computer scientist studied trinary code for a special project.
- Trinary arithmetic is less common than binary in modern computing.
- In trinary logic, each value can be true, false, or unknown.
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