triple

[tri·ple]

Triple means to multiply by three. If you triple the number two, you get six, and six is the triple of the number two.

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Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

Noun
a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base

Noun
a quantity that is three times as great as another

Verb
increase threefold; "Triple your income!"

Verb
hit a three-base hit

Adjective S.
having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows"

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Adjective S.
three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase"

a.
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

a.
Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

a.
One of three; third.

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To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

Triple

Tri"ple , a. [L. triplus; tri- (see Tri-) + -plus, as in duplus double: cf. F. triple. See Double, and cf. Treble.] 1. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

By thy triple shape as thou art seen.

2. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble. 3. One of three; third. [Obs.] Shak. Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2. -- Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively. -- Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented. -- Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3. -- Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt. -- Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity. -- Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts. -- Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.

Triple

Tri"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripling .] [Cf. F. tripler. See Triple, a.] To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

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Usage Examples

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.