trichotomy

IPA: traɪkˈɑtʌmi

Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
(algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.

Examples of "trichotomy" in Sentences

Functionalized general trichotomy.
This is an interval version of the trichotomy principle.
I thought the "trifling trichotomy" was kinda clever, too!
Trichotomy often debases the body and makes it next to nothing.
I think I have misunderstood the trichotomy presented in the CE.
Generally, a trichotomy is a splitting into three disjoint parts.
Critics of this argument assert that it presents a false trichotomy.
This is the trichotomy of all signs as building blocks of inference.
In technical terms, the complex numbers lack the trichotomy property.
If the axiom of choice holds, the law of trichotomy holds for cardinality.
POLITY codes this variable as a trichotomy, with 0 meaning that there is no legislature.
I would add another category to your dichotomy (trichotomy?) and that would be 'the street'.
So Hegel's trichotomy reveals itself to be inadequate, even if it was a useful point of departure.
Three Paths, indeed . . . and, yet, even that trichotomy seemed far too simple to truly explain it.
It is the relationship between the street thug, Arnold, and the siblings that awakens the sleeping racism within this trifling trichotomy.
As a point of departure only, I will lean on Hegel's trichotomy without thereby concurring with his application of it to specific philosophical questions.
Gilani said that his two-year-old government was following the principle of 'trichotomy' enshrined in the Constitution, which draws "red lines" about the spheres of parliament, executive and the judiciary.