ternary
- 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.