| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tri·ple |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tr p  l |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Consisting of three parts or members. 2. Three times as much in size, strength, number, or amount. 3. Music Having three beats to a measure. | | NOUN: | 1. A number or quantity three times as great as another. 2. A group or set of three; a triad. 3. Baseball See three-base hit. 4. See trifecta. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: tri·pled, tri·pling, tri·ples
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To make three times as great in number or amount. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To be or become three times as great in number or amount. 2. Baseball To make a three-base hit. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin triplus (on the model of Greek triploos) : Latin tri-, three; see trei- in Appendix I + -plus, -fold; see pel-2 in Appendix I.
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