0 involving three people, groups, systems, directions, etc.: --
a three-way merger/spilt He devised the firm's three-way split into separate mining, hotels, and trading firms.
a three-way agreement/alliance/deal It could take months to complete the three-way deal.
The phone has a choice of features such as call-waiting, call forwarding, and three-way calling.
a three-way battle/bidding war/contest They are in a three-way battle to buy a stake in the Football Club.
So it seems likely that in the everyday language of the scribe the pronouns showed only a three-way distinction (subject-genitive-object).
So serial three-way accent variation would not be a possible form of bilingualism.
However, the three-way interaction in this analysis represents the change in the strength of interaction introduced by the intervention.
If the intervention worked as predicted, we should find a significant three-way interaction.
Moreover, significant between-subjects and the three-way interaction of maltreatment effects also were obtained.
Yet again, this main effect was qualified by a significant three-way interaction.
In case of three-way interactions, all two-way interactions with the variables involved were included as well, regardless of their significance.
Given the three aspectual meanings, sentences with already are potentially three-way ambiguous.