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trip⋅li⋅cate

  [n., adj. trip-li-kit, -keyt; v. trip-li-keyt] noun, verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing, adjective
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–noun
1. one of three identical items, esp. copies of typewritten material.
–verb (used with object)
2. to make threefold; triple.
3. to make in triplicate: to triplicate a report before releasing it.
–adjective
4. produced in or consisting of three copies or parts; threefold; triple: triplicate contracts.
—Idiom
5. in triplicate,
a. in three identical copies: This letter should be done in triplicate.
b. threefold: That goes for me, too, in triplicate.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME (adj.) < L triplicātus (ptp. of triplicāre to triple), equiv. to triplic- (s. of triplex) triplex + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
trip⋅li⋅ca⋅tion, noun
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trip·li·cate   (trĭp'lĭ-kĭt)   
n.  One of a set of three identical objects or copies.
tr.v.   (-kāt') trip·li·cat·ed, trip·li·cat·ing, trip·li·cates

  1. To make threefold; triple.

  2. To make three identical copies of.


[From Middle English, triple, from Latin triplicātus, past participle of triplicāre, to triple, from triplex, triplic-, threefold; see triplex.]
trip'li·cate·ly adv., trip'li·ca'tion n.
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Word Origin & History

triplicate  (adj.)
1432, "triple, threefold," from L. triplicatus, pp. of triplicare "to triple," from tri- "three" + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)). The verb meaning "to multiply by three" is recorded from 1623.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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