triplicate
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
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to make threefold; triple.
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to make in triplicate.
to triplicate a report before releasing it.
adjective
idioms
adjective
verb
noun
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a group of three things
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one of such a group
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written out three times
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of triplicate
1400–50; late Middle English (adj.) < Latin triplicātus (past participle of triplicāre to triple), equivalent to triplic- (stem of triplex ) triplex + -ātus -ate 1
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Death by a thousand forms filed in triplicate.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
Opposing the Saja Boys is the movie’s equivalent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in triplicate.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
The numbers are protracted by Stroman’s strenuously energetic choreography, which seems to give every dance sequence the hard sell in triplicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Perform the experiment in at least triplicate for each fruit.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
And so Horace was filling in the blanks on two certificates of death, and doing so in triplicate, when the phone beside him rang.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Safely arrayed at three of the Earth–Moon Lagrange points, this triplicated consciousness tracked every component, body and course as the programme escalated.
From Nature ● Nov. 5, 2019
It might thus easily have been believed that the representation of a god's head had a still more powerful protective influence, especially when it was triplicated, thus looking in all directions, like Janus.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.
The Jakuthi Tartars, who are said to be the most numerous people of Siberia, worship a triplicated Deity under the three denominations of Artugon and Schugo-tangon and Tangara.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt
Owing to the interest and attraction of the triplicated folds of the dress the vision is carried all the way to the lower edge, where it is irritated by the sudden disappearance.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin
Between them they stowed away a prodigious amount of food, this man and woman, and it was not till I had duplicated and triplicated their original orders that they showed signs of easing down.
From The People of the Abyss by London, Jack
I have discovered the art of duplicating, triplicating, polyplicating memories.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
"Otherwise, my dear, we are in danger of duplicating and triplicating and quadruplicating, not at all to the satisfaction of the bride."
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
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