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trinity | ternary |

As a proper noun trinity

is (christianity) in christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the godhead: father, son and holy spirit.

As an adjective ternary is

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

As a noun ternary is

a group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.

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

    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