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triplet
[ trip-lit ]
noun
- one 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.
triplet
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noun
- a 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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of triplet1
C17: from triple , on the model of doublet
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The triplet poked through its shell and was mostly visible just after 2 a.m.
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Or triplets, maybe, once you throw in Elizabeth Holmes.
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The sisters - who are part of a set of triplets - moved to Scotland about 10 years ago and had been saving to buy their own home.
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The sisters - who are from a set of triplets - live in Aberdeen city centre, after moving to Scotland several years ago.
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The sisters, who are part of a set of triplets, are said to have moved to Scotland from Hungary 10 years ago.
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