Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to, having, or bounded by three lines.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Composed or consisting of three lines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Math.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines.

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  • adjective having, or bounded by three lines

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ linear

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Examples

  • I had ordered some books from Amazon a couple of months ago - a trilinear translation of the bible greek, hebrew, english and a Strong's concordance to go with it.

    October 22nd, 2007 curufea 2007

  • If your gameplay isn't fun with a bunch of blue squares running around, it isn't going to be fun with The Matrix license, Claudia Christian's voice work, or offset-mapped, trilinear-filtered, buzzword enabled graphics.

    Game Design Atoms 2005

  • - Other planes for additional features and further acceleration o Texture processing fully supported in hardware with 2 megatextels of texture memory (8 MB of DRAM) for full trilinear interpolation of mip-mapped images o Support for Intergraph Computer Systems '17 - and 21-inch multi-sync monitors o Multiple video resolution support for resolutions ranging from 640 x 480 pixels to 1,152 x 864

    FAQ: The PC 3D Graphics Accelerators FAQ v0.6 (Part II) 1995

  • Textured areas, 512 x 512 (trilinear 15 megatexels/second interpolated, mip-mapped) 2D graphics performance*

    FAQ: The PC 3D Graphics Accelerators FAQ v0.6 (Part II) 1995

  • Textured areas, 512 x 512 (trilinear 15 megatexels/second interpolated, mip-mapped) 2D graphics performance*

    FAQ: The PC 3D Graphics Accelerators FAQ v0.6 (Part II) 1995

  • * Says this deal will equate to 39% of the issued shares in Pinnacle to trilinear for a purchase price of R150 million

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • * Says trilinear will take transfer of absa's entire equity interest in

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • * Says trilinear will take transfer of absa's entire equity interest in

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • · Per texture filtering (bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic) · Texture LOD Bias

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Webscripts 2010

  • Thing is, besides the mediocre quality, a box filter doesn't make sense when you are trying to support accelerated rendering since it's more expensive to implement than generating mipmaps and using trilinear filtering, which is already implemented directly in the texture sampling hardware.

    VirtualBlog phaeron 2010

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