Triplet

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A group or set of three of one kind.
  • n. One of three children born at one birth.
  • n. A group of three lines of verse.
  • n. Music A group of three notes having the time value of two notes of the same kind. Also called tercet.
  • n. Physics A multiplet with three components.
  • n. Genetics A unit of three successive nucleotides in a molecule of DNA or RNA that codes for a specific amino acid; a codon or anticodon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A group of three.
  • n. One one of a group of three.
  • n. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
  • n. A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
  • n. A triquark.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
  • n. Three verses rhyming together.
  • n. A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.
  • n. Three children or offspring born at one birth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bicycle for three riders.
  • n. A collection or combination of three of a kind, or three united.
  • n. In poetry, three verses or lines riming together.
  • n. In music, a group of three tones to be performed in the time of two or four. Such groups are marked. . Compare sextuplet, decimole, etc.
  • n. A combination of three plano-convex lenses in a compound microscope, which serves to render the object clear and distinct, and free from distortionā€”an improvement upon the doublet (see doublet, 2); also, a hand-microscope consisting of three double-convex lenses.
  • n. In mathematics, a system of three families of surfaces such that one of each family passes through each point of space.
  • n. One of three children born at one birth.
  • n. plural Three links of chain, generally used to connect the cable with the anchor-ring.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
  • n. one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
  • n. a set of three similar things considered as a unit
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    digit    figure    sib    sibling   
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    thre   
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    singlet    septet    sextet    quartet    sysadmin    duad    octet    couplet