different between tertiary vs triple

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin terti?rius (“of the third part or rank”), from tertius (“third”) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French tertiaire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.?i.?.?i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?.?i.æ.?i/, /?t?.??.?i/
• Hyphenation: ter?ti?a?ry

Adjective

tertiary (not comparable)

1. Of third rank or order; subsequent.
   • 1831, [Mary Shelley], chapter 2, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. 9), rev. and corr. edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute; Dublin: Cumming, ?OCLC; republished as Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, November 1991, ?ISBN, page 25:

     An untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned philosopher knew little more. He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
2. (chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
3. (ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.

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See also

• Appendix:English_ordinal_numbers
• cubic

Noun

tertiary (plural tertiaries)

1. Any item considered to be of third order.
2. A tertiary colour.
3. (geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
4. (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
5. (military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
   • 2008, Tamar Herzig, “The Power of Visions: Lucia Brocadelli and Osanna Andreasi”, in Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, ?ISBN; large print edition, Richmond, B.C.: ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd., 2010, ?ISBN, page 146:

     Immediately after her arrival in Ferrara, while she was still striving to secure the foundation of her exemplary reformed community of Dominican tertiaries, [Lucia] Brocadelli also renewed her attempts to enhance [Girolamo] Savonarola's saintly reputation.

Translations

Further reading

• third order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English triple (also þripell), from Latin triplus. Doublet of treble.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??p?l/, /?t??pl/
• Rhymes: -?p?l

Adjective

triple (not comparable)

1. Made up of three related elements, often matching

2. Of three times the quantity.

3. Designed for three users.

4. Folded in three; composed of three layers.
5. Having three aspects.

6. (music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
7. (obsolete) One of three; third.

Synonyms

• (made up of three related elements): tern, treble; see also Thesaurus:triple
• (three times the quantity): threefold, thrissome; see also Thesaurus:threefold

Derived terms

• triple-barrelled
• triple valve

Related terms

• duple
• treble

Translations

Noun

triple (plural triples)

1. Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc
2. (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.

   I've had a hard day; make that a triple.

3. (US) A hamburger with three patties.

   I'd like a triple with cheese.

4. (baseball) A three-base hit

   The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth.

5. (basketball) A three-point field goal
6. (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
7. (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.

Hyponyms

• (computing): Hoare triple

Derived terms

• triplestore

Translations

Verb

triple (third-person singular simple present triples, present participle tripling, simple past and past participle tripled)

1. To multiply by three

   The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter.

2. (baseball) To get a three-base hit

   The batter tripled into the gap.

3. To become three times as large

   Our earnings have tripled in the last year.

4. To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.
   • 1982, Popular Mechanics, Best tools for your electronics workbench (volume 157, number 1, page 106, January 1982)

     Radio Shack's All-Purpose Crimper/Cutter ($9.95) doubles as a wire stripper and triples as a bolt cutter.

Translations

See also

• treble
• triple jump
• triple sec
• triple goddess

Anagrams

• Pirtle, Tipler, let rip, prelit, tripel

Catalan

Etymology

Latin triplus

Adjective

triple (masculine and feminine plural triples)

1. triple

Noun

triple m (plural triples)

1. (sports) triple, treble, hat trick

Further reading

• “triple” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Semi-learned term resulting from a modification, under the influence of the Latin etymology, of Old French treble, itself from Latin triplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ipl/

Adjective

triple (plural triples)

1. triple
2. (music) thirty-second note

Derived terms

• point triple
• triple croche
• triple jeu
• triple saut
• triplement

Noun

triple m (plural triples)

1. (baseball) triple

Verb

triple

1. inflection of tripler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “triple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

triple

1. feminine plural of triplo

Anagrams

• peltri

Latin

Numeral

triple

1. vocative masculine singular of triplus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

triple

1. definite singular of trippel
2. plural of trippel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

triple

1. definite singular of trippel
2. plural of trippel

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin triplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?iple/, [?t??i.ple]

Adjective

triple (plural triples)

1. triple
2. threefold
3. three-way

Derived terms

• salto triple
• triple diosa
• triple salto

Anagrams

• reptil, pretil