different between triplex vs ternary

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

English

Etymology

From Late Latin ternarius (“consisting of three things”), from terni (“three each”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??n??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?n??i/
• Homophone: ternery

Adjective

ternary (not comparable)

1. Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.
2. Arranged in groups of three.
3. (arithmetic) To the base three.
4. (arithmetic) Having three variables.
5. (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.

Synonyms

• (made up of three things): tern, trinary, trine; see also Thesaurus:triple
• (to the base three): trinary

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• unary
• binary
• tetranary

Noun

ternary (plural ternaries)

1. A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
2. (obsolete) The Holy Trinity.
   • 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:

     And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty Ternarie,) Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish Ida, this Mountayne of Contemplation […].

Synonyms

• (a group of three things): See Thesaurus:trio

Anagrams

• Trenary