different between triplex vs triplet

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

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Pronunciation

Noun

triplet (plural triplets)

1. A group of three.
2. One of a group of three.
3. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
4. (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
5. (physics) A triquark.
6. (physics) A quantum state with three allowed projections for the spin.
7. A constructed gem consisting of a thin slice of natural opal sandwiched between a clear glass or quartz top and a synthetic or stone backing that enhances the colour of the opal.

Synonyms

• (group of three): threesome, triad; see also Thesaurus:trio
• (one of a group of three siblings born at the same time): threeling

Translations

See also

• threesome
• trio
• triptych
• twin

Anagrams

• pretilt

French

Etymology

triple +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.pl?/

Noun

triplet m (plural triplets)

1. (mathematics, biology, architecture) triplet, group of three things

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French triplet.

Noun

triplet n (plural triplete)

1. triplet

Declension