Citations:tertiation


 * 1717, Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, Tes–Tha
 * Tertiation, a dividing into three.
 * 1724, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, “ tertiation ”
 * TERTIATION, a doing of a thing the third time.
 * 1803, William Owen, A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, volume 2 (G–Y), “ Trioliad ”
 * Trioliad, s. m. (triawl) A tertiation.
 * 1806, James Leslie, Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language, page 173, “third”
 * THIRD. a. One-third part, subtriple; the performing of a thing the third time, tertiation.
 * 1870 August 1st, Norman Macleod and Donald Macleod, Good Words, volume 11, “Our Plates and Dishes”, page 542
 * There may be duality, or tertiation, or quaternity, or any other of the algebraical numbers, so that their amount be not too high.
 * 1967, Solomon Wolf Golomb, Shift Register Sequences (Holden-Day), page 79
 * Taking q = 3 in Equation (8) leads to tertiation of the PN sequence. This is a new PN sequence if and only if n is odd. The number of distinct PN sequences obtainable by tertiation is the smallest j such that 3j ≡ 2m (modulo p) for any m.
 * 1979, Andrew Porter, Music of Three Seasons, 1974–1977 (Chatto & Windus; ISBN 0701123400, 9780701123406), page 162
 * First performances are busting out all over, and a conflict of concerts attractive to a listener is bound to occur at times. But when — as happened on Monday last week — programs by the Speculum Musicae, the Composers Theater, and the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music (United States Section), each of the three containing premières, are coincident, planning is agley, and the result is tertiation of the potential audience at each.
 * 1980, Morris Zimmerman, Richard A. Mumford, and Donald F. Steiner [eds.], Precursor Processing in the Biosynthesis of Proteins (New York Academy of Sciences; ISBN 0897660730, 9780897660730), page 2
 * Initiators for folding (tertiation)