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ternary Adjective 1. consisting of three items or groups of three items 2. Maths (of a number system) to the base three [Latin ternarius] Ternary set or group of three, especially the Holy Trinity. Examples: ternary of stanzas, 1779; ternary of worthies, 1654; the Holy Ternary, 1662; the Almighty Ternarie, 1570.
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A naturalist, struck by a parallelism of this nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the groups in other classes (and all our experience shows that this valuation has hitherto been arbitrary), could easily extend the parallelism over a wide range; and thus the septenary, quinary, quaternary, and ternary classifications have probably arisen. |
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