Definitions for triple

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triple tri·ple

Spelling: [trip-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtrɪp əl/

Triple is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in triple (eilprt).

Definitions for triple

noun

1. an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
2. a group, set, or series of three; something threefold; triad.
3. Also called three-base hit. Baseball. a base hit that enables a batter to reach third base safely.
4. Bowling. three strikes in succession.
5. trifecta.

adjective

1. threefold; consisting of three parts:
2. of three kinds; threefold in character or relationship.
3. three times as great.
4. International Law. tripartite.

verb (used with object)

1. to make triple.
2. Baseball. to cause to come into home plate by a triple:

verb (used without object)

1. to become triple.
2. Baseball. to make a triple.

Origin of triple

1325-75; Middle English (noun and v.) Latin triplus (adj.), equivalent to tri- tri- + (du)plus duple

Examples for triple

Displaced girls, especially, face the triple jeopardy of war, domestic violence and attacks from neighboring men.

His first triple question also ended, for some time, his remarks.

Last year they joined with the widows of the men from Popular Unity in calling for an investigation into the triple homicide.

With this triple killing his main troubles with dogs ceased.

Elderly women played triple Double Diamond and Tiki Magic while they chain-smoked.

And she told the Prince all about the wall with the triple gates.

The wine-producing countries of Spain, Italy, and France, suggest limits that are double and triple that of the U.S.

He emphasized that employing people with IDD is a triple win: the employer, the employee, and the federal government all benefit.

The clock-reel was used for winding yarn, also a triple reel.

Where there is no unity, there it cannot have any meaning to speak of the double or triple existence.