Usually means: Three values or states system.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word ternary:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ternary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ternary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ternary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ternary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ternary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ternary, ternary: Wordnik
  7. ternary: Wiktionary
  8. ternary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ternary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ternary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ternary: Dictionary.com
  12. Ternary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ternary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ternary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Ternary: Rhymezone
  16. Ternary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ternary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ternary: Free Dictionary
  19. ternary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. ternary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ternary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ternary: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ternary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ternary: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ternary: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ternary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ternary)

adjective:  Made up of three things.
adjective:  Arranged in groups of three.
adjective:  (arithmetic) To the base three.
adjective:  (arithmetic) Having three variables.
adjective:  (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
adjective:  (programming) Of an operator taking three operands.
noun:  A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
noun:  (obsolete) The Holy Trinity.

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