Associations to the word «Triplet»

Wiktionary

TRIPLET, noun. A group of three.
TRIPLET, noun. One of a group of three.
TRIPLET, noun. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
TRIPLET, noun. (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
TRIPLET, noun. (physics) A triquark.
TRIPLET OXYGEN, noun. (physics) (chemistry) the normal state of molecular oxygen

Dictionary definition

TRIPLET, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
TRIPLET, noun. One of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
TRIPLET, noun. A set of three similar things considered as a unit.

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.