trichotomy

noun
/tɹaɪˈkɒt.ə.mi/UK/tɹaɪˈkɑt.ə.mi/US

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τριχοτομία (trikhotomía), from τρίχα (tríkha) + τόμος (tómos) + -ία (-ía).

  1. borrowed from τριχοτομία

Definitions

  1. Division or separation into three groups or pieces.

  2. the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given…

    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.

    • [A linear order] obeys the following trichotomy law[.]

The neighborhood

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