Meanings
plural trinaries
- astronomyA trinary star.
- A ternary, a set of three things.
[…] a trinary of terms to describe conceived, perceived, and lived space.
2007 December 12, James D. Mardock, Our Scene is London: Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1242 more examples
Collectively, religion, the secular, the superstition form what Josephson has called a "trinary" of mutually constitutive forces.
2019 March 25, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 152[…] a trinary of expert, governed, and lived religion in order to study how the category of religion has come to be used in academic studies of global religion and secularity.
2023 August 4, Michael Graziano, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 237
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latintrīni“triple, three each”
- Late Latintrīnārius“consisting of three”
- Englishtrinary
From Late Latin trīnārius (“consisting of three”), from Latin trīni (“triple, three each”) + -ārius.
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trinary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinary
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