Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of three.
- noun In bibliography, a section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The number three; three things together; a ternary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The number
three ; three things together; aternary ortriplet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Etymologies
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Examples
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Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion.
The doctrine of the mean Confucius 2004
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The play of chances which brings up a ternion or a quaternion is nothing compared to what has been required to prevent the combination of which I am reaping the fruits from being disturbed.
Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897
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Able to assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion [2]. '
The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856
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We Blog A Lot 2009
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Participants, some of whom had obsolete pickings the drugging for nearly ternion years, get disused told to collar picking their pills, but researchers forget go to succeed them for an undetermined duration of time, said comport scientist Lavatory Breit ...
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yarb commented on the word ternion
"The sum of one and one and one", weirdnet? So, three?
March 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ternion
Smarty pants. ;-)
March 29, 2008