ternary

Example Sentences

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First are “ternary” societies divided into functional classes — clergy, nobility and everyone else.

From New York Times

Sweden’s Andersson Dance joins the Scottish Ensemble in “Goldberg Variations — ternary patterns for insomnia.”

From Washington Post

He pointed out the markers indicating the perimeters of the original grove, the levelling, and the ternary patterns that he’d adapted from Le Nôtre’s original design.

From The New Yorker

Google+ is introducing "infinite" ways to define gender, letting users describe themselves using whichever terms they feel comfortable with rather than relying on the ternary ‘Male’, ‘Female’, or ‘Other’ system.

From The Verge

Woodkid described the opening percussive section as “focusing on collisions between ternary and binary rhythms.”

From New York Times