Definitions for triplet

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triplet tri·plet

Spelling: [trip-lit]

IPA: /ˈtrɪp lɪt/

Triplet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in triplet (eilprtt).

Definitions for triplet

noun

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

Origin of triplet

First recorded in 1650-60; triple + -et

Examples for triplet

Hunt imitated Dryden in the use of both alexandrine and triplet.

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

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

A combination of two lenses is called a doublet—of three, a triplet.

This is a War Ballad, in triplet stanzas with 'duplication.'

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

Dr. triplet's monument now stands in the place where this did.

Dr. triplet came to give his master a visit, and he whip't him.

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

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