trinary

Alternative form of ternary.

Adjective

  1. Alternative form of ternary.

Origin

From Late Latin trīnārius (“consisting of three”), from Latin trīni (“triple, three each”) + -ārius.

Synonyms

threefold treble

Related

triangle trinity

Derived

trinarization trinary star trit

Noun

  1. A trinary star.
  2. A ternary, a set of three things.
    • […] a trinary of terms to describe conceived, perceived, and lived space. - 2007 December 12, James D. Mardock, Our Scene is London: Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author, Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
    • Collectively, religion, the secular, the superstition form what Josephson has called a "trinary" of mutually constitutive forces. - 2019 March 25, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in...
    • […] a trinary of expert, governed, and lived religion in order to study how the category of religion has come to be used in academic studies of global religion and secularity. - 2023 August 4, Michael Graziano, Errand...

Forms

trinaries