tri-state

or tri·state

[ trahy-steyt ]

adjective
  1. of, relating to, or involving three adjoining states: a tri-state league.

  2. of, relating to, or involving the region where three states adjoin: the historic tristate mining district of southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas, and northeast Oklahoma.

Origin of tri-state

1
First recorded in 1895–1900; tri- + state

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use tri-state in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for tristate

tristate

/ (ˈtraɪˌsteɪt) /


adjective
  1. (of a digital computer chip) having high, low, and floating output states

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012