tristate

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English

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Etymology

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From tri- +‎ state.

Adjective

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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

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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.
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Latin

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Participle

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trīstāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of trīstātus