Three-way used in a sentence

Three-way in a sentence as an adjective

Merely an unscientific three-way split of a 24-hour day, with a liberal sleep quota and a traditional weekend. It's also the most defensible scheme against the old guard.

Honestly, the best microwave control panel I ever used was a simple rotary knob to set the time, and a three-way "high-medium-low" power switch. Covered 95% of use cases with absolutely no confusion.

Perhaps it's naive, but I feel safer booking direct, because then if I have any problems, I'm dealing with a first-party and it's harder to be given the three-way runaround.

This reminds me of Microsoft skipping part of the three-way handshake for IIS-to-IE connections to reduce the latency to their servers as compared to Apache.

I submit that because the person on your cell phone doesn't have the same physical context as you, they don't know they need to shut up for a moment while you try to avoid a three-way with an overly aggressive BMW trying to split lanes. There is a certain amount of 'shared context' that isn't part of the discussion.

Baltimore in many ways had three-way segregation -- black, white, and Jewish -- with Realtors for all three communities refusing to show houses in the "wrong" neighborhood to anyone. However, the public school system only had two-way segregation -- black and white, with Jews attending white schools.

The end result of this is a three-way battle for tablet superiority where there would have only been one choice: the iPad. Oh, and now Microsoft is throwing their hat into the ring too... Quite frankly, I think the next few years are going to be very kind to tablet-fans, and that's partly in thanks to "predatory" pricing.

I'm pretty sure the example in this article wouldn't confuse git: weirdness like this is the reason git has the "recursive" merge algorithm instead of just doing a plain three-way merge. A recursive merge basically tries to merge some of the parents together before doing the final merge, which resolves this sort of case.

Also, there is already more information for resolving conflicts in a three-way merge. Unfortuntely, the performance is currently horrible, which makes it completely unusable.

Git and Mercurial sacrifice correctness in favor of pragmatism in some cases, by taking shortcuts such as three-way merges. Unlike in the relational database world, there is no accepted standard for interfacing with a versioned repository.

They say they can't release any information about the service to her without my permission, so I suddenly get a three-way call explaining that my friend and the ISP representative are on the line and I need to give my authorization to access the account information. Being the person I am, I attempt to troubleshoot things over the phone before giving out any sort of account credentials.