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triplex

[ trip-leks, trahy-pleks ]

adjective

  1. threefold; triple.


noun

  1. something triple.
  2. Music. triple time.
  3. an apartment having three floors.
  4. a multiplex of three theaters or movie houses.

Triplex

1

/ ˈtrɪplɛks /

noun

  1. a laminated safety glass, as used in car windows


triplex

2

/ ˈtrɪplɛks /

adjective

  1. a less common word for triple

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Word History and Origins

Origin of triplex1

1595–1605; < Latin triplex (stem triplic- ) threefold, equivalent to tri- tri- + -plex -plex

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Word History and Origins

Origin of triplex1

C17: from Latin: threefold, from tri- + -plex -fold

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Example Sentences

This elucubration was called: "Triplici nodo triplex cuneus," which probably means "A triple pry for the triple knot."

A material known as triplex glass had been experimentally made.

My armour is the aes triplex of a clear conscience, and a mind nourished by the precepts of philosophy.

He is triceps "three-headed," triplex or tergeminus "threefold," triformis "of three bodies," or simply Tricerberus.

The triplex glass used in the eyepieces was a patented commodity produced only in one small factory in Philadelphia.

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