TRINITY

The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle. Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.

In Christian belief, the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. | A female given name from English used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent. | A male given name. | A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. | A town in Alabama. | A city in North Carolina. | A city and town in Texas. | Ellipsis of Trinity term. | Ellipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge. | Ellipsis of Trinity College, Oxford. | The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.

A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one. | The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.