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  • n  the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
  • s  having three units or components or elements
    a ternary operation

  • It also has a practical, good-natured glossary (a choliamb is a kind of metrical substitution, usually with ternary feet replacing binary.
  • A ternary chart, for example, shows "the percentage of a whole based on three parts of information," according to the manual.
  • Still, some of his claims are hickish: "Often Billie was confronted with songs that did not fall into the standard 32-bar ternary AABA format.

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