Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of three parts or proceeding by threes; ternary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of three parts, or proceeding by threes; ternary.
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- adjective Alternative form of
ternary . - noun astronomy a
trinary star
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And page numbers are in trinary (using only the digits 0, 1, and 2).
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What the industry usually meant when they used the word trinary was computer processing that used three states of electrical current flow: the absence of flow, and the two possible directions of flow along a wire.
Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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What the industry usually meant when they used the word trinary was computer processing that used three states of electrical current flow: the absence of flow, and the two possible directions of flow along a wire.
Dabbling Around Trinary Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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Now there’s a man who would’ve appreciated the word trinary, Zarquon bless him!
Points Of Clarification « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009
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Now there’s a man who would’ve appreciated the word trinary, Zarquon bless him!
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We were still trying to figure out what the densely packed stream of trinary data meant.
365 tomorrows » Codename Winter : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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As you can clearly see, the signals are obviously based on a trinary system, and they're growing more complex.
i'm making some wine from the grapes of wrath pecunium 2009
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We were still trying to figure out what the densely packed stream of trinary data meant.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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We were still trying to figure out what the densely packed stream of trinary data meant.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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You can understand Python's trinary operator the first time you encounter it without any explanations.
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