Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex. / Arranged in groups of three. / (arithmetic) To the base three. / (arithmetic) Having three variables.

A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce. / (obsolete) The Holy Trinity.

plural of ternary

plural of ternary computer

(programming) An operator taking three operands, specifically the operator ?: used in many programming languages to select one of two values depending on a third value.

plural of ternary operator

plural of ternary complex

(mathematics) The logarithm to the base three

plural of ternary logarithm

Any code whose elements may take one of three values