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Triad vs Ternary - What's the difference?

triad | ternary |

As nouns the difference between triad and ternary

is that triad is a grouping of three while ternary is a group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.

As an adjective ternary is

made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.

triad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grouping of three.
  • (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
  • (electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
  • A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirate

    Related terms

    * triadic

    See also

    * monad * dyad * mafia * tong * yakuza * ("triad" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    *

    ternary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex
  • Arranged in groups of three
  • (mathematics) To the base three
  • * Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
    • Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is the balanced ternary notation.
  • (mathematics) Having three variables
  • (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
    • Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.

    Synonyms

    * trinary

    Derived terms

    * ternary alloy * ternary code * ternary complex * ternary compound * ternary computer * ternary diagram * ternary expansion * ternary form * ternary Golay code * ternary Golay conjecture * ternary incremental representation * ternary logic * ternary name * ternary notation * ternary numeral system * ternary operation * ternary operator * ternary plot * ternary pulse code modulation * ternary quantic * ternary search * ternary search tree * ternary signal * ternary system * ternary tree

    See also

    * unary * binary

    Noun

    (ternaries)
  • A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce