英和和英

形容詞

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.

名詞

tristate (複数形 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.

アナグラム

• attirest, attrites, rattiest, tartiest, titrates

Latin

Participle

trīstāte

1. vocative masculine singular of trīstātus