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triplet

[ trip-lit ]

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noun

one of three children or offspring born at the same birth.
triplets, three offspring born at one birth.
any group or combination of three.
Prosody. three successive verses or lines, especially when rhyming and of the same length; a stanza of three lines.
Also called tercet. Music. a group of three notes to be performed in the time of two ordinary notes of the same kind.
an assembled imitation gem with three parts, the center one giving the color, the top and bottom, sometimes genuine, supplying the wearing qualities.
Genetics. a sequence of three nucleotides; a codon in messenger RNA and an anticodon in transfer RNA.
Optics. a compound lens in which three lenses are combined.
triplets, (in some card games) three cards of the same denomination.

triplet

/ ˈtrɪplɪt /

a group or set of three similar things
one of three offspring born at one birth
music a group of three notes played in a time value of two, four, etc
chem a state of a molecule or free radical in which there are two unpaired electrons

Origin of triplet¹

First recorded in 1650–60; triple + -et

Origin of triplet¹

C17: from triple , on the model of doublet

Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.

Music aficionados recognize this rhythm as a triplet or “hemiola”: the playing of two different musical patterns simultaneously.

During that same age span, the percentage of ART-assisted triplet pregnancies soars from 40 percent to 80 percent.

I think that privately we thought him something worse than a triplet, but we neither knew quite how to say it.

A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; of three lines, a triplet; of four lines, a quatrain.

Triplet thanked her for her condescension; he would wait for Mr. Vane in the hall.

For Triplet looked like an absurd wolf—all benevolence and starvation!

A grampus was heard outside the door, and Triplet opened it.

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