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Definition: Triplet |
TripletNoun1. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one. 2. One of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy. 3. A set of three similar things considered as a unit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "triplet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Note: Triplet \Trip"let\, noun. [From Triple.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Chemistry | The spacing. . . of the three components of the. . . -- is found to be equal to the spacing of the four components of the. . . quartet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | An ordered set of three binary digits. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | An assembled stone of two main parts of gem materials bonded by a layer of cement or other thin substance (the third part of the triplet), whichgives color to the assemblage. CF:doublet; emerald triplet. (references) |
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Synonyms: TripletSynonyms: deuce-ace (n), leash (n), tercet (n), ternary (n), ternion (n), terzetto (n), three (n), threesome (n), tierce (n), trey (n), triad (n), trine (n), trinity (n), trio (n), troika (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe. |
Triality | Three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce, spike-team, trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon, trinomial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele, triskelion, trisula. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Triplet |
| English words defined with "triplet": centriole ♦ Gamow, George Gamow ♦ Sextolet ♦ Tiercet, Triole. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "triplet": codons ♦ mascot emerald ♦ soude emerald, Steiner's triple systems, stop codon ♦ termination codon, terminator codon, tripletine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Triplet" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (triplet). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Triplet Trouble (1952) | |
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Health | MJD belongs to a class of genetic disorders called triplet repeat diseases. (references) | |
Friedreich's ataxia is the first known recessive genetic disease that is caused by a triplet repeat expansion. (references) | ||
This is due to the tendency of the triplet repeat mutation to expand with the passing of genetic material to offspring. (references) | ||
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| "Triplet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Triplet" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.55% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "triplet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Triplet | Last name | 170 | 53,746 |
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1. Triplet, VA |
Expressions using "triplet": triplet byte ♦ triplet code. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "triplet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | triplët, trinjak (trilling), treshe (leash, triad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الثلاثية وحدة من ثلاثة أبيات, الثلاثي مجموعة من ثلاثة, أحد توائم ثلاثة, ثلاثة توائم (triplets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тройка (tern, ternary, threesome, triad, trine, troika), триола (tercet), триплет, три римувани стиха, три близнака (trillings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 三胞胎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trojice (group of three, ternary, threesome, triad, Trinity, trio), trojèe, triola. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | triplet (triplet of bases), 3-bit byte (three-bit byte, triplet byte). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | triplet (three-bit byte, triplet byte). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سه قلو, سه گانه (Threefold, Triple), سه تاءی (Triad, Trio), سه جزءی (Tripartite, Triple, Triplex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tripletti (triplet of bases), kolmilinssi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | triplet, triplé, triolet (triolet), tercet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Triole, Drilling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριπλέ, τριδύφια δυφιοσυλλαβή (three-bit byte, triplet byte), τρίσημο, τρίστιχο (tercet), τρίδυμα (triplets), τρίδυμο, δυφιοτριάδα (three-bit byte, triplet byte). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שלישי" בלי"" אחת, שלישי" (group of three, threesome, triad, trio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trió (trio), hármas (ternary, three, treble, Trey, triad, trine, trio, triple, triplicate, troika). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terzina (tercet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 三連符 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さ"れ"ぷ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | troor (three persons, threesome, trey, triad, Trinity, trio), triplaid, tree reddyn (triplicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iplettray trio (trio), trigémeo (trilling), terceto (tercet), grupo de três versos, grupo de três (triad, trinity). (various references) triplet, triolet (triolet), trio (trio), trei gemeni, terţet (tercet, trio). (various references) тройка (ternion, three, threesome, three-tuple, trey, troika), тройня, близнец (gemini, quintuplet, twins). (various references) trojka (troika). (various references) trillizo (triple), byte de tres bits (three-bit byte, triplet byte). (various references) triplett, trilling (threeling, trill, trilling), trebitars ord (three-bit byte, triplet byte). (various references) triolet, üçlü (tern, ternary, ternate, terzetto, three, threefold, threesome, triad, trilateral, trine, trio, tripartite, triple, triplex), üçüzlerden biri. (various references) трійка (three, threesome, triple, troika), трійнята. (various references) triban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "triplet": tripletail, tripletails, triplets. (additional references) | |
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"Triplet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thrilet, Trapley, Triepel, Triglaf, Triglav, trilit, triolet, tripla, triplee, triplej, tripley, tripolar, tripole, tripple, trippler, Trippleton, truplet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "triplet" (pronounced tri"plut) |
| 4 | -p l u t | droplet, quintuplet, sextuplet, template, templet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, scarlet, skillet, starlet, tablet, toilet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: litter, tilter, triple. | |
-2 letters: liter, litre, peril, petit, petti, plier, relit, tiler, titer, title, titre, tripe, trite. | |
-3 letters: lept, lier, lipe, lire, lite, pelt, peri, pert, pier, pile, plie, riel, rile, ripe, rite, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tret, trip. | |
-4 letters: ire, lei, let, lie, lip, lit, per, pet, pie, pit, rei, rep, ret. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: plottier, prettily, splitter, triplets, triplite. | |
+2 letters: paltriest, portliest, splitters, triplites. | |
+3 letters: graptolite, interplant, intraplate, replotting, tetraploid, toploftier, tripletail, triplicate. | |
+4 letters: bipartitely, centripetal, fieldstript, graptolites, interplants, interpolate, luteotropic, luteotropin, particulate, partitively, paternalist, peristaltic, pertinently, petrologist, pluripotent, poltergeist, potteringly, preliterate, priestliest, proletariat, proteolytic, protostelic, protractile, resplitting, splattering, spluttering, teleporting, teleprinter, temporality, tetraploids, tetraploidy, tripletails, triplicated, triplicates, trumpetlike. | |
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