triplex

[ trip-leks, trahy-pleks ]
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adjective
  1. threefold; triple.

noun
  1. something triple.

  2. Music. triple time.

  1. an apartment having three floors.

  2. a multiplex of three theaters or movie houses.

Origin of triplex

1
1595–1605; <Latin triplex (stem triplic-) threefold, equivalent to tri-tri- + -plex-plex

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How to use triplex in a sentence

  • This elucubration was called: "Triplici nodo triplex cuneus," which probably means "A triple pry for the triple knot."

    The Jesuits, 1534-1921 | Thomas J. Campbell
  • A material known as triplex glass had been experimentally made.

  • My armour is the aes triplex of a clear conscience, and a mind nourished by the precepts of philosophy.

    Romola | George Eliot
  • He is triceps "three-headed," triplex or tergeminus "threefold," triformis "of three bodies," or simply Tricerberus.

    Cerberus, The Dog of Hades | Maurice Bloomfield
  • The triplex glass used in the eyepieces was a patented commodity produced only in one small factory in Philadelphia.

British Dictionary definitions for triplex (1 of 2)

triplex

/ (ˈtrɪplɛks) /


adjective
  1. a less common word for triple

Origin of triplex

1
C17: from Latin: threefold, from tri- + -plex -fold

British Dictionary definitions for Triplex (2 of 2)

Triplex

/ (ˈtrɪplɛks) /


noun
  1. trademark British a laminated safety glass, as used in car windows

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