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ternary
English
Etymology
From Late Latin ternarius (“consisting of three things”), from terni (“three each”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??n??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t?n??i/
- Homophone: ternery
Adjective
ternary (not comparable)
- Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.
- Arranged in groups of three.
- (arithmetic) To the base three.
- (arithmetic) 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.
Synonyms
- (made up of three things): tern, trinary, trine; see also Thesaurus:triple
- (to the base three): trinary
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- unary
- binary
- tetranary
Noun
ternary (plural ternaries)
- A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
- (obsolete) The Holy Trinity.
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty Ternarie,) Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish Ida, this Mountayne of Contemplation […].
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
Synonyms
- (a group of three things): See Thesaurus:trio
Anagrams
- Trenary
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contrastivism
English
Etymology
contrastive +? -ism
Noun
contrastivism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) An epistemological theory suggesting that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form "S knows that p rather than q", in contrast to the traditional view whereby knowledge attributions have a binary structure of the form "S knows that p".
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