tristate
/tɹˈaɪstˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having, or pertaining to, three distinct states.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a region in the United States where three state borders come to a single point.
Example Sentences
- "This tristate logic deals with true, false, and unknown values."
- "The event will be sponsored by several tristate businesses."
- "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."
- "Configuration options that control the build process are either Booleans or tristates."
- "The Tristate is on alert after a rash of home burglaries."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English tristate From tri- + state.
Inflected Forms
Phrases
tri-state area