triplet
pronunciation
How to pronounce triplet in British English:
UK [ˈtrɪplət]
How to pronounce triplet in American English:
US [ˈtrɪplɪt]
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- Noun:
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
Word Origin
- triplet (n.)
- 1650s, "three successive lines of poetry," from triple; perhaps patterned on doublet. Extended to a set of three of anything by 1733, and to three children at the same birth by 1787 (another word for this was trin, 1831, on the model of twin). Musical meaning "three notes played in the time of two" is from 1801.
Example
- 1. How busy is the zither triplet trio ?
- 2. Halima , their triplet sister , is engaged to a cousin .
- 3. No one , however , was told that the child was a twin or triplet , or that the study involved the influence of nature versus nurture .
- 4. Fig. 3 some typical hydrophobic two 2 photon triplet sensitizers with naphthalene moiety and their synthesis .
- 5. The cysts adhered to uterus , rectum ? Sigmoid colon , bladder in different degree . The triplet sign was seen in 8 cases .