Tristate - Wiktionary

Jump to content

Contents

move to sidebar hide

• Beginning
• 1 English Toggle English subsection
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Adjective
  • 1.3 Noun
  • 1.4 Related terms
  • 1.5 Anagrams
• 2 Latin Toggle Latin subsection
  • 2.1 Participle

• Entry
• Discussion

English

• Read
• Edit
• View history

Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions

• Read
• Edit
• View history

General

• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Permanent link
• Page information
• Cite this page
• Get shortened URL
• Download QR code

Print/export

• Create a book
• Download as PDF
• Printable version

In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:tristateWikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

From tri- +‎ state.

Adjective

[edit]

tristate (not comparable)

1. Having, or pertaining to, three distinct states. This tristate logic deals with true, false, and unknown values.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a region in the United States where three state borders come to a single point. The event will be sponsored by several tristate businesses.

Noun

[edit]

tristate (plural tristates)

1. (programming) A variable, etc. that can take any of three distinct values.
   • 2000, John Blankenship, C is for Control:The 4 input ports are simply tristates that can be addressed to enable the data from any one of them to be read by the standard input port of the printer interface.
   • 2010, Robert Love, Linux Kernel Development, page 14:Configuration options that control the build process are either Booleans or tristates.
2. (often capitalized) The area in some regions of the United States where three state borders come to a single point. The Tristate is on alert after a rash of home burglaries.

Related terms

[edit]

• tristated

Anagrams

[edit]

• attirest, attrites, rattiest, tartiest, titrates

Latin

[edit]

Participle

[edit]

trīstāte

1. vocative masculine singular of trīstātus

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=tristate&oldid=87854354" Categories:

• English terms prefixed with tri-
• English lemmas
• English adjectives
• English uncomparable adjectives
• English terms with usage examples
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• en:Programming
• English terms with quotations
• en:Three
• Latin non-lemma forms
• Latin participle forms

Hidden categories:

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 2 entries
• Quotation templates to be cleaned

Search Search Toggle the table of contents tristate 4 languages Add topic