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Definition of Triple

1. Adjective. Having three units or components or elements. "Triplex windows"

2. Verb. Increase threefold. "Their earnings triple this year"; "Triple your income!"

3. Noun. A base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base.

4. Adjective. Three times as great or many. "A threefold increase"

5. Verb. Hit a three-base hit.

6. Noun. A set of three similar things considered as a unit.

7. Noun. A quantity that is three times as great as another.

Definition of Triple

1. a. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

2. v. i. To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

Definition of Triple

1. Adjective. Made up of three related elements, often matching ¹

2. Adjective. Three times the quantity ¹

3. Adjective. Designed for three users ¹

4. Adjective. Folded in three; composed of three layers ¹

5. Adjective. Having three aspects; very ambiguous. ¹

6. Adjective. (music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast. ¹

7. Noun. (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol. ¹

8. Noun. (American English) A hamburger with three patties. ¹

9. Noun. (baseball) A three-base hit ¹

10. Noun. (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play. ¹

11. Noun. (mathematics computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple. ¹

12. Verb. To multiply by three ¹

13. Verb. (baseball) To get a three-base hit ¹

14. Verb. To become three times as large ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triple

1. to make three times as great [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]

Medical Definition of Triple

1. 1. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. "By thy triple shape as thou art seen." (Dryden) 2. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble. 3. One of three; third. Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara. Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively. Triple measure, a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented. Triple ratio, that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts. Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive. Origin: L. Triplus; tri- (see Tri-) + -plus, as in duplus double: cf. F. Triple. See Double, and cf. Treble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triple

triphyline triphylines triphylite triphyllous tripiest tripinnate tripinnated tripinnately tripinnatifid triplane

triplanes triplant triplant implant triplasian triplatin tetranitrate triple (current term) triple-SIM triple-blind triple-click triple-clicks

triple-crown triple-crown season triple-decker triple-jumper triple-jumpers triple-space triple-spacing triple-tail triple-threater triple-tongue

Literary usage of Triple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1908)
"At temperatures and pressures above this triple point, rhombic sulphur will be the stable modification, and this fact is of mineralogical interest, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This fact made the invention of the "Lw triple valve possible. In addition to the auxiliary reservoir the "L9 triple valve employs a large storage reservoir ..."

3. The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary, 1879-1914 by Alfred Francis Pribram (1921)
"CHAPTER IV THE TACIT RENEWAL OF THE THIRD TREATY OF THE triple ALLIANCE THE treaty of the triple Alliance of 1891 was concluded for a period of six years; ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"1788-93] The results of the triple Alliance then formally signed by ... Thus was concluded the triple Alliance of 1788, a triumph for the foreign policy of ..."

5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1912)
"As its name implies, the triple valve is a combination valve, performing three distinct duties: (1) taking air from the train-line to charge the auxiliary; ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This fact made the invention of the "L" triple valve possible. In addition to the auxiliary reservoir the ((Le triple valve employs a large storage ..."

7. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"The year 1915 marks the end of the famous triple Alliance concluded more than 30 ... The great service of the triple Alliance was in keeping these powers at ..."

8. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1903)
"triple Alliance, 1883. An alliance between the English, the Peshwa and the Nizam ... triple Alliance (India). The war waged by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay ..."

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