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triplet

[ trip-lit ]

noun

  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, especially 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.


triplet

/ ˈtrɪplɪt /

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of triplet1

First recorded in 1650–60; triple + -et

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Word History and Origins

Origin of triplet1

C17: from triple , on the model of doublet

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Example Sentences

From the time the triplets started kindergarten, he was an enthusiastic member of the school community, serving on the parent-teacher organization, attending board meetings and even volunteering on Kinnon’s political campaigns.

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They have a great loving family, 23-year-old triplets and 21-year-old twins.

For example, extremely preterm twins and triplets often fare worse than single-born babies.

The number of extremely preterm twins and triplets, who often fare poorly, also did not explain the death-rate disparity.

It also contains most of the atmosphere’s ozone, triplet molecules made from three oxygen atoms.

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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