Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of the Latin tritura, imperative of triturare, triturate: used in pharmacy.
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- noun computing The
ternary equivalent of abit ; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.
Etymologies
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Examples
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What he likes to do is trit trot around the country being adored.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Hits Obama: We Need A "Hands On" President 2009
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What he likes to do is trit trot around the country being adored.
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And he ceased, tung and trit, and it was neversoever so dusk of both of them.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"This is the way the ladies ride, trit-trot, trit-trot, trit-trot."
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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For double fare I make them trit-trot like horses.
The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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"I mean " yes, I'd like to ride on your elephants, but no trit-trotting, thank you.
The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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But Monsieur le Marquis, her father, he trit me ver 'bad.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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But Monsieur le Marquis, her father, he trit me ver 'bad.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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But Monsieur le Marquis, her father, he trit me ver 'bad.
The Crossing 1904
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He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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