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- adjective mathematics Having or involving exactly three
variables
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Examples
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Cohen et al. (2003) emphasized that the correlations among body size, abundance, and trophic level produce a characteristic trivariate structure to (pelagic) food webs (Fig. 2).
Food web 2008
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I've been working from the view that understanding a given individual in a holistic way requires recognizing "innate" gender (internal "wiring"), physical gender (appearance) and sexuality (preference), which actually comprise a (possibly trivariate?) multimodal distribution, where each of these three factors resides on its own "spectrum" (axis) and where the distribution on each may be bimodal.
Out of the Shadows Zoe Brain 2007
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