Ternary (Adjective)
Meaning
Having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The computer programming language had a ternary operation that combined three conditions to determine a course of action.
- The mathematician was particularly interested in ternary forms, which are functions of three variables.
- In her free time, the artist enjoyed creating ternary compositions of colors that complemented each other.
- A more efficient system allows for ternary sort of data storage to be executed in parallel.
- The triple-bladed design she conceived was essentially a ternary implementation of a conventional double-bladed fan.