Trichotomy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Division into three parts or elements.
  • n. A system based on three parts or elements.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
  • n. the following property of an order relation (e.g., "less than"): for any two elements (of a given algebraic structure) there are exactly three possibilities: either the first element is less than the second one, the second element is less than the first one, or the two elements are equal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Division into three parts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Division into three parts; specifically, in theot., division of human nature into body (soma), soul (psyche), and spirit (pneuma).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract