Definition of "trinary" []

• Consisting of three parts or proceeding by threes; ternary. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And page numbers are in trinary (using only the digits 0, 1, and 2)."
• "What the industry usually meant when they used the word trinary was computer processing that used three states of electrical current flow: the absence of flow, and the two possible directions of flow along a wire."
• "Now there’s a man who would’ve appreciated the word trinary, Zarquon bless him!"