THREE-WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-way mean? 

• THREE-WAY (adjective)
  The adjective THREE-WAY has 1 sense:

1. involving three parties or elements

  Familiarity information: THREE-WAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-WAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving three parties or elements

Synonyms:

three-party; three-way; tripartite

Context example:

a three-way playoff

Similar:

many-sided; multilateral (having many parts or sides)

 Context examples 

Expression of the allele is altered in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients by a three-way translocation t(8;14;12)(q24.1;q32.3;q24.1) with the MYC gene and the immunoglobulin H locus.

(BCL7A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Recurrent three-way translocations of BCL7A with MYC and IGH occur in a high-grade B cell non-Hodgkin (Burkitt) lymphoma; the N-terminal BCL7A region is disrupted.

(BCL7A Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The highest BPA content was detected in the three-way stopcock (over 7,000ng/g), followed by the patterned transparent film dressing (surgical tape), the gastro-duodenal feeding tube, sterile gloves for professional use, the umbilical catheter, and the intravenous infusion extension kit (with BPA concentrations ranging between 100 and 700ng/g).

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

When they analysed the hormonal activity of the samples taken from the selected materials, based on oestrogenicity and anti-androgenicity assays, the items presenting the most hormonal activity were the dummy, the three-way stopcock, and the patterned transparent film dressing.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)