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Trifecta vs Trinity - What's the difference?

trifecta | trinity |

As nouns the difference between trifecta and trinity

is that trifecta is a bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish while trinity is a group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.

As a proper noun Trinity is

in Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

trifecta

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, Australia, New Zealand) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.
  • * 2006 , Vincent Conti, Thoroughbred Horse Racing Systems and Methodologies , page 9,
    • The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.
  • * 2010 , Leonard A. Asimow, Mark M. Maxwell, Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text , page 10,
    • In a trifecta , you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.
  • (US, Australia, New Zealand) The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.
  • (US, by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.
  • * 2007 , Michael Morrison, Head First JavaScript , page 525,
    • Along with runtime errors, two other errors we saw earlier round out the JavaScript bug trifecta : syntax errors, logic errors, and runtime errors.
  • * 2011', Beatriz Scaglia, '' The '''Trifecta of Evil and the Crisis of Faith: Devil, Satan, and Lucifer .
  • * 2011', Markus Horner, '' Consistently Persistent: Living with the Tourette '''Trifecta .
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    • Related terms

    * perfecta * superfecta * quadfecta

    See also

    * exacta

    trinity

    English

    Noun

    (trinities)
  • A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • The state of being three; threeness.

    • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

    Derived terms

    * nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian

    See also

    * Trinity * Trinity College * quaternity * Unitarian