2. Noun. (star) a trinary star ¹
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Definition of Trinary
1. consisting of three parts [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trinary
Literary usage of Trinary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1883)
"From these, the step is not great to the orchids, undoubtedly the highest of all
the trinary flowers, with the triple arrangement almost entirely obscured, ..."
2. Education in Retrospect: Policy and Implementation Since 1990 by Andre Kraak, Michael Young (2001)
"Institutional stratification ideas were widespread across the globe during this
time, particularly with the adoption and expansion of binary and trinary ..."
3. A New Treatise on Elements of Mechanics Establishing Strict Precision in the by John William Nystrom (1875)
"The trinary divisions give an endless number of decimals. The decimal system is
therefore not well suited for metrology, in which binary and trinary ..."
4. Flowers and Their Pedigrees by Grant Allen (1883)
"From these, the step is not great to the orchids, undoubtedly the highest of all
the trinary flowers, with the triple arrangement almost entirely obscured, ..."
5. The Chhándogya Upanishad of the Sáma Veda: With Extracts from the Commentary by Rājendralāla Mitra, Śaṅkarācārya (1862)
"I shall convert each of these three sources into a trinary form. ... Them did he
convert into trinary forms. Learn from me, my child, how these three ..."
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