Ternary

Word TERNARY
Character 7
Hyphenation ter na ry
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Ternary"

What do we mean by ternary?

Composed of three or arranged in threes. adjective

Having the base three. adjective

Involving three variables. adjective

A group of three. noun

Proceeding by threes; consisting of three: as, a ternary flower (that is, one having three members in each cycle); a ternary chemical substance (that is, one composed of three elements).

The number three; a group of three. noun

In mathematics, having three variables.

In old chemistry, applied by Dalton to substances consisting of three atoms — either A + 2 B or 2 A + B.

A trinity. noun

A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad. noun

Proceeding by threes; consisting of three. adjective

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. adjective

Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex adjective

Arranged in groups of three adjective

To the base three adjective

Having three variables adjective

A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce noun

Having three units or components or elements adjective

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one noun

A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.

The Holy Trinity.

A numeral system with 3 digits: 0, 1 and 2. The rightmost digit has the value 1, the digit to the left of it has the value 3 (10=3, 20=6). The digits to the left of that are 3*3 (9), 3*3*3 (27), 3*3*3*3 (81) and so on... Similar to the binary byte, the ternary system has tryte, six ternary digits. There are 729 possible trytes. (compare with 256 possible bytes!) Urban Dictionary

A halo, such as one found on an angel. Urban Dictionary

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The word "ternary" in example sentences

The Python ternary is that undead () if 'yes' else 'grr. argh.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

A century earlier, Franco of Cologne had explicitly associated the idea of ternary rhythm with the Christian trinity, but from now onwards, every value had to be able to be divided by either two or three. ❋ Lu (2009)

The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy eight, inclusive; or, in other words, 'three number' schemes. ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

Because most languages only have one operator that requires three arguments, it is known as the ternary operator, although in theory there could be more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is essentially an if statement but in a more concise form known as a ternary operator, and would be no different than writing: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lines 5 through 7 use a "ternary" operator that basically says, "If the left css property equals 0, move the element to the left as many pixels as it is wide (including padding and border); if not, move it back to 0." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The lottery schemes are what is known as the ternary combination of seventy-eight numbers, being one to seventy-eight, inclusive; or in other words, 'three number' schemes. ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

I must say that Python's ternary operator is really ugly, though. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can easily replicate ternary functionality using tuples then the conditional to select the appropriate one. e.g. ( "b", "a") [True] 'a' ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you want it to read like a typical ternary, you can do 'cond and "a" or "b"' to achieve the same result. e.g. True and "a" or "b" ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Python ternary operator was added because of the widespread use of and/or in the language before it was created. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Python does actually have a ternary, but it looks different from a c ternary: ❋ Unknown (2008)

They also have a lot of that inverted loop/branching logic like the ternary operator – but only for special cases. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, the ternary operator, well beloved by this developer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just to be clear, though, that's not a true ternary operator since it relies on the "truth" of 'yes' position. ❋ Unknown (2008)

E.g., one can plainly see that the genetic code is a mosaic of codes, a multi-code, and not exclusively a ternary code (but also binary, quaternary, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their main innovations were intended to rationalise musical notation, allowing it to develop into a binary to ternary rhythm or vice versa, as well as new graphical elements for the shorter notes. ❋ Lu (2009)

Now, I appreciate many of the things he says about javascript, love that he put in a shoutout to the ternary operator, but javascript as a favourite language? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The constraints to be added to the ternary R, in fact, are more complex than those of standard modal logic, and some involve also the star operator *, to which we now turn. ❋ Berto, Francesco (2009)

Technically, when w is an impossible world, we state the truth conditions for the conditional, by means of the ternary R, as follows: ❋ Berto, Francesco (2009)

Consider the [tryte] 201202 for example: 2 * 3^5 (243) = 486 0 * 3^4 (81) = 0 1 * [3^3] (27) = 27 2 * 3^2 (9) = 18 0 * 3^1 (3) = 0 2 * 3^0 (1) = 2 486+27+18+2 = 533 So 201202 in [ternary] means 533 in decimal! ❋ Oxeye Daisy (2006)

The [angel's] [ternary] [shone] brightly. ❋ 1234urawhore (2006)

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