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Definition of Triplets
1. triplet [n] - See also: triplet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triplets
Literary usage of Triplets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"tances of triplets : in the first there was 1 placenta and chorion, ... b describes
a case of triplets in which one child was born alive, the other 2 having ..."
2. The Effects of a Magnetic Field on Radiation: Memoirs by Faraday, Kerr, and by Michael Faraday, John Kerr, Pieter Zeeman (1900)
"Magnetic triplets.—With finite width of the spectral-line and observing in a
direction ... Intermediate Forms of Magnetic Doublets and of triplets. ..."
3. Typical Newspaper Stories by Harry Franklin Harrington (1915)
"HARLAN THOMPSON, in Kansas City Star B triplets GAIN A POUND One whole pound
gained is the record which each of the Christmas triplets at the home of James ..."
4. A System of Midwifery, Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1875)
"The products of conception in these eases are termed twins, triplets, quadruplets,
... Twin Pregnancies occur once in about 75 to 80 cases, and triplets ..."
5. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton: Knt., LL. D., D. C. L., M. R. I. A by Robert Perceval Graves (1889)
"Taking up a copy of my Paper on triplets I saw the date, and it reminded me that
while I ... Your couplets of time must have suggested triplets and n-kts. ..."
6. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton: Knt., LL. D., D. C. L., M. R. I. A by Robert Perceval Graves (1889)
"Taking up a copy of my Paper on triplets I saw the date, and it reminded me that
while I ... Your couplets of time must have suggested triplets and n-lvts. ..."
7. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"OCTOSYLLABIC triplets. § 666. Four measures, xa, \yith three rhymes regularly in
succession. A still, small voice spake unto me: " Thou art so full of ..."
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