/trit/ (By analogy with "bit") One base-3 digit the amount of information Conveyed by a seleCtion among one of three equally likely outComes. Trits arise, for example, in the Context of a flag that should aCtually be able to assume *three* values - suCh as yes, no, or unknown. Trits are sometimes jokingly Called "3-state bits". A trit may be semi-seriously referred to as "a bit and a half", although it is linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 bits (that is, log2(3) bits). [Jargon File] (1995-05-11)