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
Example Sentences
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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
Every month, he filled out coffee requisition forms in triplicate.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
The dose was repeated, duplicated and triplicated recklessly, but without result.
From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley
Among the Otaheitans and various tribes of Indians, the belief prevails that all created things have proceeded from a triplicated deity who was saved from the ravages of a flood in an ark or ship.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt
They talked till Culling interposed his claim for attention, preferring the request with triplicated brogue.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
There is not one that has not been duplicated, triplicated, ah! dozens and dozens of times since this quaint old world of ours began.
From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell
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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