ternary

Meanings

Adjective

• Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.
• Arranged in groups of three.
• To the base three.
• Having three variables.
• 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.

Noun

• A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
• The Holy Trinity.

Related

Similar words

• trinary

Origin

• From Late Latin ternarius ("consisting of three things"), from terni.