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Ternary is an adjective meaning "composed of three items". It can refer to:

Ternary complex
Ternary complex
A Ternary complex refers to a protein complex containing three different molecules which are bound together. In structural biology ternary complex can be used to describe a crystal containing a protein with two small molecules bound, for example cofactor and substrate; or a complex formed between...

, a complex formed by the interaction of three molecules
Ternary compound
Ternary compound
In chemistry, a ternary compound is a compound containing three different elements. An example of this is sodium phosphate, Na3PO4. The sodium ion has a charge of 1+ and the phosphate ion has a charge of 3-. Therefore, three sodium ions are needed to balance the charge of one phosphate ion. Another...

, a type of chemical compound
Ternary computer
Ternary computer
A ternary computer is a computer that uses ternary logic instead of the more common binary logic in its calculations.-History:...

, a computer using a ternary numeral system
Ternary form
Ternary form
Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form, usually schematicized as A-B-A. The first and third parts are musically identical, or very nearly so, while the second part in some way provides a contrast with them...

, a form used for structuring music
Ternary Golay code
Ternary Golay code
There are two closely related error-correcting codes known as ternary Golay codes. The code generally known simply as the ternary Golay code is a perfect [11, 6, 5] ternary linear code; the extended ternary Golay code is a [12, 6, 6] linear code obtained by adding a zero-sum check digit to the...

, a perfect [11, 6, 5] ternary linear code
Ternary heap, a data structure in computer science
Ternary logic
Ternary logic
In logic, a three-valued logic is any of several many-valued logic systems in which there are three truth values indicating true, false and some indeterminate third value...

, a logic system with the values true, false, and some other value
Ternary name
Ternary name
In botany, an infraspecific name is the name for any taxon below the rank of species, i.e. an infraspecific taxon. The scientific names of plants are regulated by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...

for any taxon below the rank of species
Ternary numeral system
Ternary numeral system
Ternary is the base- numeral system. Analogous to a bit, a ternary digit is a trit . One trit contains \log_2 3 bits of information...

, a base-3 counting system
- Balanced ternary
  Balanced ternary
  Balanced ternary is a non-standard positional numeral system , useful for comparison logic. It is a ternary system, but unlike the standard ternary system, the digits have the values −1, 0, and 1...
  
  , a positional numeral system, useful for comparison logic
Ternary operation
Ternary operation
In mathematics, a ternary operation is an n-ary operation with n = 3. A ternary operation on a set A takes any given three elements of A and combines them to form a single element of A. An example of a ternary operation is the product in a heap....

, an operation that takes three parameters
Ternary plot
Ternary plot
A ternary plot, ternary graph, triangle plot, simplex plot, or de Finetti diagram is a barycentric plot on three variables which sum to a constant. It graphically depicts the ratios of the three variables as positions in an equilateral triangle...

or ternary graph, a plot that shows the ratios of three proportions
Ternary relation, a finitary relation in which the number of places in the relation is three
Ternary search
Ternary search
A ternary search algorithm is a technique in computer science for finding the minimum or maximum of a unimodal function...

, a computer science technique for finding the minimum or maximum of a function
Ternary signal
Ternary signal
In telecommunication, a ternary signal is a signal that can assume, at any given instant, one of three states or significant conditions, such as power level, phase position, pulse duration, or frequency....

, a signal that can assume three significant values
Ternary tree
Ternary tree
In computer science, a ternary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most three child nodes, usually distinguished as "left", “mid” and "right". Nodes with children are parent nodes, and child nodes may contain references to their parents. Outside the tree, there is often a...

, a tree data structure in computer science
- Ternary search tree
  Ternary search tree
  In computer science, a ternary search tree is a special trie data structure where the child nodes of a standard trie are ordered as a binary search tree. Searching for a string in a ternary search tree consists of a series of binary searches, one for each character in the string...
  
  , a ternary (three-way) tree data structure of strings

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