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adjective

Triple adj.

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.)

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.

verb

Triple v. i. (past & past part. tripled; pres. part. tripling) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

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"Triple" Quotes from Famous Books

... scrupulous of meddling with a rebel's legal right in man, though that man were being used for a weapon or a tool against itself, as if to touch it were anathema. The divinity, which is only a hedge about a king, becomes a wall of triple brass about a slaveholder. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various

... continent was fused, a careless giant upset the crucible, and spilt Van Diemen's land in the ocean. The coast navigation is as dangerous as that of the Mediterranean. Passing from Cape Bougainville to the east of Maria Island, and between the numerous rocks and shoals which lie beneath the triple height of the Three Thumbs, the mariner is suddenly checked by Tasman's Peninsula, hanging, like a huge double-dropped ear-ring, from the mainland. Getting round under the Pillar rock through Storm Bay to Storing Island, we sight the Italy of this miniature Adriatic. ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... speech declaring that the United States would enter into no alliance which did not include all the world: "no combination of power which is not a combination of all of us." Well, since then he became a party to a kind of triple alliance and in the judgment of many observers it constitutes the main result of the Conference. In the words of an American press organ: "Clemenceau got virtually everything he asked. President Wilson virtually dropped his own program, and adopted the French and British, ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... of pedestal adorned with a high relief of classic design, of the type which we shall find again in the Sacred and Profane Love, recalls Giovanni Bellini, or rather his immediate followers; the magnificently robed Alexander VI. (Rodrigo Borgia), wearing the triple tiara, gives back the style in portraiture of Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio; while the kneeling Jacopo Pesaro—an ecclesiastic in tonsure and vesture, but none the less a commander of fleets, as the background ...

— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips

... property, was among those who told him plainly that if he remained they would have to give up their pews. Three or four communications were even more threatening. Mr. Alpheus Gore, Mrs. Plimpton's brother, who at five and forty had managed to triple his share of the Gore inheritance, wrote that it would be his regretful duty to send to the bishop an Information on the subject of Mr. ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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