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[ trip-lit ] / ˈtrɪp lɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR triplet ON THESAURUS.COM
nounone 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. Origin of tripletFirst recorded in 1650–60; triple + -et Words nearby triplettriple point, triple response, triple rhythm, triple sec, triple-space, triplet, tripletail, triple threat, triple time, tripleton, triple-tongue Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tripletTriplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week. ‘Sexual’ Barbershop Quartet, a Panda Family Reunion, and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Music aficionados recognize this rhythm as a triplet or “hemiola”: the playing of two different musical patterns simultaneously. The Goldilocks of Black Holes|Matthew R. Francis|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST The sound was hardly out of its body, when poor Triplet writhed like a worm on a hook. Peg Woffington|Charles Reade "About here, sir, if you please," said poor Triplet faintly. Peg Woffington|Charles Reade
Pompey came in with the pie, Mrs. Woffington took it and set it before Triplet. Peg Woffington|Charles Reade Triplet then suddenly started from entreaty to King Cambyses' vein. Peg Woffington|Charles Reade Triplet had seen with alarm that Mr. Snarl spoke not; many satirical expressions crossed his face, but he said nothing. Peg Woffington|Charles Reade
British Dictionary definitions for triplet
nouna 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 Word Origin for tripletC17: from triple, on the model of doublet Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tripletthreesome, triumvirate, trilogy, troika, triad, leash, triple, trinity, trine, triangle, triplicate, triptych, trey, ternion, trio, triplicity, third, trichotomy, trivium, ternary Medical definitions for triplet
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. |