adj.
- Composed of three or arranged in threes.
- Mathematics.
- Having the base three.
- Involving three variables.
A group of three.
[Middle English, from Latin ternārius, from ternī, three each. See tern2.]
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ternary
American Heritage Dictionary:
ter·na·ry |
adj.
A group of three.
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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
ternary |
consisting of three parts.
| terminator, termination factor, termination codon | |
| ternary complex, terpene, terpenoid |
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
ternary |
1. third in order.
2. made up of three elements or radicals.
Rhymes:
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Ternary (from Latin ternarius) is an adjective meaning "composed of three items". It can refer to:
- Ternary complex, a complex formed by the interaction of three molecules
- Ternary compound, a type of chemical compound
- Ternary computer, a computer using a ternary numeral system
- Ternary form, a form used for structuring music
- Ternary Golay code, a perfect [11, 6, 5] ternary linear code
- Ternary heap, a data structure in computer science
- Ternary logic, a logic system with the values true, false, and some other value
- Ternary name for any taxon below the rank of species
- Ternary numeral system, a base-3 counting system
- Balanced ternary, a positional numeral system, useful for comparison logic
- Ternary operation, an operation that takes three parameters
- Ternary plot or ternary graph, a plot that shows the ratios of three proportions
- Ternary relation, a finitary relation in which the number of places in the relation is three
- Ternary search, a computer science technique for finding the minimum or maximum of a function
- Ternary signal, a signal that can assume three significant values
- Ternary tree, a tree data structure in computer science
- Ternary search tree, a ternary (three-way) tree data structure of strings
See also
- Unary (disambiguation) (1)
- Binary (disambiguation) (2)
- Tertiary (disambiguation) (3rd)
- Quaternary (disambiguation) (4)
- Quinary (5)
- Senary (6)
- Septenary (7)
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Translations:
Ternary |
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - trefoldig
n. - triade
Nederlands (Dutch)
drievoudig, -delig
Français (French)
adj. - (Chim, Math, Mus) ternaire
n. - (Chim, Math, Mus) ternaire
Deutsch (German)
adj. - ternär, (Chem.) aus 3 untersch. Gruppen oder Elementen bestehend, (Math.) von 3 Variablen abhängig, (Metallegierung) aus 3 Hauptbestandteilen
n. - Dreierverbindung, Ternion
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - τριαδικός
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ternário (formado de três)
Русский (Russian)
троичный, тернарный, тройной, трехкомпонентный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - ternario, triple
n. - terno
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - trefaldig, tre-, trekomponents-
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
三个的, 三重的, 三个一组的, 三个一组
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 三個的, 三重的, 三個一組的
n. - 三個一組
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 셋으로 이루어지는, 세 겹의, 3위의
n. - 세 개 한 조
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 三重の, 三進の
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) ثالث من حيث الترتيب أو ألمنازله, ثلاثي
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - (מורכב) משלושה חלקים, שלישי, על בסיס 3 (מתמטיקה), של שלושה, משולש
n. - שלישייה
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