- Look up
ternary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ternary (from
Latin ternarius) or
trinary is an
adjective meaning "composed of
three items". It can...
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Balanced ternary is a
ternary numeral system (i.e. base 3 with
three digits) that uses a
balanced signed-digit
representation of the
integers in which...
- A
ternary /ˈtɜːrnəri/
numeral system (also
called base 3 or trinary) has
three as its base.
Analogous to a bit, a
ternary digit is a trit (trinary digit)...
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Ternary form,
sometimes called song form, is a three-part
musical form
consisting of an
opening section (A), a
following section (B) and then a repetition...
- A
ternary plot,
ternary graph,
triangle plot,
simplex plot, or
Gibbs triangle is a
barycentric plot on
three variables which sum to a constant. It graphically...
- Brusentsov. It was the most
modern ternary computer,
using the
balanced ternary numeral system and three-valued
ternary logic instead of the two-valued binary...
- A
ternary computer, also
called trinary computer, is one that uses
ternary logic (i.e., base 3)
instead of the more
common binary system (i.e., base 2)...
- In
computer programming, the
ternary conditional operator is a
ternary operator that is part of the
syntax for
basic conditional expressions in several...
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materials chemistry, a
ternary compound or
ternary phase is a
chemical compound containing three different elements.
While some
ternary compounds are molecular...
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modern point-set topology. The most
common construction is the
Cantor ternary set,
built by
removing the
middle third of a line
segment and then repeating...
