different between apartment vs triplex

English

Alternative forms

• APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
• apt.

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
• (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/

Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

   • By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
   • 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

     The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Derived terms

• apartment building
• apartment block

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
• ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)

Translations

See also

• tenement

Malay

Noun

apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)

1. apartment

English

Etymology

From Latin triplex.

Pronunciation

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
2. (architecture) Having three floors or other divisions.

Derived terms

• triplexity
• Triplexity (name of a boardgame)
• Triplexity (virtual band consisting of 3 members, their name is said to be a portmanteau of triplex and complexity)
• triplicity

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

1. A building with three apartments or divisions
2. (juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
3. (music, uncountable) Triple time.

Verb

triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin triplex. In the sense “three-veneer plywood” likely a shortening of triplexhout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri.pl?ks/
• Hyphenation: tri?plex

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

1. threefold

Inflection

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of three veneers

Coordinate terms

• multiplex

Latin

Etymology

From tr?s (“three”) + plic? (“fold together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pleks/, [?t???p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pleks/, [?t??i?pl?ks]

Adjective

triplex (genitive triplicis, adverb tripliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. triple, threefold

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• triplic?s
• triplicit?s

Related terms

• tr?s

Descendants

• English: triplex, Triplex
• French: triplex
• German: Triplex-, Triplex
• Italian: triplice
• Sicilian: trìprici

References

• triplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• triplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French triplex.

Noun

triplex n (uncountable)

1. triplex

Declension