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triplet

/trip-lit/US // ˈtrɪp lɪt //UK // (ˈtrɪplɪt) //

三连体,三联体,三重奏,三合一

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of three children or offspring born at the same birth.
    • : triplets, three offspring born at one birth.
    • : any group or combination of three.
    • : Prosody. three successive verses or lines, especially when rhyming and of the same length; a stanza of three lines.
    • : Also called tercet. Music. a group of three notes to be performed in the time of two ordinary notes of the same kind.
    • : an assembled imitation gem with three parts, the center one giving the color, the top and bottom, sometimes genuine, supplying the wearing qualities.
    • : Genetics. a sequence of three nucleotides; a codon in messenger RNA and an anticodon in transfer RNA.
    • : Optics. a compound lens in which three lenses are combined.
    • : triplets, three cards of the same denomination.

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Examples

  • They have a great loving family, 23-year-old triplets and 21-year-old twins.

  • For example, extremely preterm twins and triplets often fare worse than single-born babies.

  • The number of extremely preterm twins and triplets, who often fare poorly, also did not explain the death-rate disparity.

  • It also contains most of the atmosphere’s ozone, triplet molecules made from three oxygen atoms.

  • Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week.

  • Music aficionados recognize this rhythm as a triplet or “hemiola”: the playing of two different musical patterns simultaneously.

  • During that same age span, the percentage of ART-assisted triplet pregnancies soars from 40 percent to 80 percent.

  • I think that privately we thought him something worse than a triplet, but we neither knew quite how to say it.

  • A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; of three lines, a triplet; of four lines, a quatrain.

  • Triplet thanked her for her condescension; he would wait for Mr. Vane in the hall.

  • For Triplet looked like an absurd wolf—all benevolence and starvation!

  • A grampus was heard outside the door, and Triplet opened it.