trinary

/ˈtraɪnəri/
noun
  1. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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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