three-spot

[ three-spot ]

noun

1. a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.

Example Sentences

He qualified 18th in the 20-driver field but will start last because he must serve a three-spot grid penalty earned in F1’s last outing, in China.

From Seattle Times

There was also North Carolina’s three-spot jump to No. 4 after beating rival North Carolina State for its third Atlantic Coast Conference road win in as many tries and blowing out Syracuse at home.

From Seattle Times

I tried to dismiss this weird looking “three-spot” imaging motif as an error, but in discussing it we also acknowledged the remote possibility that what we had seen might somehow contradict the classical neuroscience supporting a homunculus.

From Scientific American

These connections to higher-order control regions planted the idea that the three-spot network might be important for merging motor command signals from the homunculus with neural activity for more abstract planning.

From Scientific American

Alcaraz’s three-spot jump from No. 4 ties the mark for biggest move up to No. 1.

From Seattle Times