ternary

Dictionary: ter·na·ry

(tûr'nə-rē) pronunciation

adj.

n., pl., -ries.
A group of three.

[Middle English, from Latin ternārius, from ternī, three each. See tern².]

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1. third in order.
2. made up of three elements or radicals.

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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 ring operator, a linear or vector space M of operators between two Hilbert spaces such that M M* M ⊂ M
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

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