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| 1. | one of three children or offspring born at the same birth. |
| 2. | triplets, three offspring born at one birth. |
| 3. | any group or combination of three. |
| 4. | Prosody. three successive verses or lines, esp. when rhyming and of the same length; a stanza of three lines. |
| 5. | Also called tercet. Music. a group of three notes to be performed in the time of two ordinary notes of the same kind. |
| 6. | an assembled imitation gem with three parts, the center one giving the color, the top and bottom, sometimes genuine, supplying the wearing qualities. |
| 7. | Genetics. a sequence of three nucleotides; a codon in messenger RNA and an anticodon in transfer RNA. |
| 8. | Optics. a compound lens in which three lenses are combined. |
| 9. | triplets, (in some card games) three cards of the same denomination. |
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| trip·let
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n.
[tripl(e) + (doubl)et.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
triplet
1656, "three successive lines of poetry," from triple; perhaps patterned on doublet. Extended to a set of three of anything in 1733, and to three children at the same birth in 1787 (another word for this was trin, 1831, on the model of twin). Musical meaning "three notes played in the time of two" is from 1801.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| triplet | |
noun | |
| 1. | the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three] |
| 2. | one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy |
| 3. | a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈtriplet [-lit] noun
one of three children or animals born at the same time to the same mother
Example: She's just had triplets.
See also: tripleExample: She's just had triplets.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
triplet trip·let (trĭp'lĭt)
n.
- Any of three children delivered at the same birth.
- A set of three similar objects, such as a compound lens in a microscope formed of three planoconvex lenses.
- A unit of three successive nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule that codes for a specific amino acid; a codon or anticodon.
| The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
Main Entry: trip·let
Pronunciation: 'trip-l&t
Function: noun
1 a : a combination, set, or group of three b : an atom ormolecule with an even number of electrons that have a net magnetic moment c : CODON
2 a : one of three children or offspring born at one birth b triplets pl : a group of three offspring born at one birth
3 : a combination of three lensestriplet>
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Triplet, VA Zip code(s): 23868
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Triplet
Tri"ole\ (tr[=e]"[=o]l), n. [See Triolet.] (Mus.) Same as Triplet.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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triplet: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
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