TRIPLE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Triple

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/trˈɪpəl/ Listen

adjective

Triple adj.

1.

Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. "By thy triple shape as thou art seen."

2.

Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

3.

One of three; third. (Obs.)

Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2.

Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively.

Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented.

Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3.

Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt.

Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity.

Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts.

Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.

verb

Triple v. i. (past & past part. tripled; pres. part. tripling) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

See images of 'Triple'

Etymology of 'Triple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Triple" Quotes from Famous Books

... defending his rampart as long as he could, the Corsair chief, with Sin[a]n and Ayd[i]n "Drub-Devil," made his way to Bona, where he had fortunately left fifteen of his ships. The lines of Kheyr-ed-d[i]n's triple wall may still be traced across the neck of land which separates the lake of Tunis from the Mediterranean. Fifteen years ago this rampart was cut through, when nearly two hundred skeletons, some Spanish money, cannon balls, and broken weapons ...

— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole

... showed him the same hospitable attentions which they had paid to Molina; and his description of the marvels of the place, on his return, fell nothing short of his predecessor's. The fortress, which was surrounded by a triple row of wall, was strongly garrisoned. The temple he described as literally tapestried with plates of gold and silver. Adjoining this structure was a sort of convent appropriated to the Inca's destined brides, who manifested great curiosity to see him. Whether ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... extend to the voters of the first three classes. On the fourth day, members of the council shall be selected from the fourth class; they shall be selected by all, but the compulsion to vote shall only extend to the second class, who, if they do not vote, shall pay a fine of triple the amount which was exacted at first, and to the first class, who shall pay a quadruple fine. On the fifth day, the names shall be exhibited, and out of them shall be chosen by all the citizens 180 of each class: these are severally to be reduced by lot to ninety, and 90 x 4 will form ...

— Laws • Plato

... century, lived one William Elphick, a devotee of bell-ringing, who computed that altogether he had rung Chiddingly's triple bell for 8,766 hours (which is six hours more than a year), and who travelled upwards of ten thousand miles to ring ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand was a mere pretext for Vienna, which in fact had resolved on an expedition against Serbia soon after the second Balkan war by which she felt herself humiliated. In scathing terms he denounces the Triple Alliance policy and thinks it a great mistake that Germany allied herself with the "Turkish and Magyar oppressors." And though he says that it was Germany which "persisted that Serbia must be massacred," he makes it quite clear that it was ...

— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com