trit

Blend of trinary +‎ digit, formed in analogy to bit from binary digit.

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪt/

trit (plural trits)

1. (computing) The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.
   • 2016, Gonzalo Navarro, Compact Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     For example, consider storing trits (recall Section 2.6.4), which take values in {0, 1, 2}. If we use 2 bits per value, then an array A[1, n] of trits requires 2n bits.

• qutrit

• tryte

• RTTI, ritt

Borrowed from German Tritt, from the verb treten (Danish træde).

• IPA^(key): /trit/, [ˈtˢʁ̥id̥]

trit n (singular definite trittet, plural indefinite trit)

1. step, pace (correspondence in time)

   in the modern language mostly in the expressions holde trit (“to keep pace”) and ude af trit (“out of step”)

• “trit” in Den Danske Ordbog

trit n (indeclinable)

1. imitation of the mouse's noise. squeak

• “trit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Compare Tocharian B trite.

trit

1. third