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Trichotomous

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Divided into three parts, or into threes; forking three ways. not-comparable

    "a trichotomous stem"

  2. 2
    Such that, for all x and y in X, and for a binary relation R, exactly one of xRy, yRx or x=y holds. not-comparable

    "> is a trichotomous relation, while the relation "divides" over the natural numbers is not."

Etymology

From trichotomy + -ous. Modelled on dichotomous.

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