TRIPLET


Meaning of TRIPLET in English

■ noun

1》 one of three children or animals born at the same birth.

2》 Music a group of three equal notes to be performed in the time of two or four.

3》 a set of three rhyming lines of verse.

4》 technical a group of three similar things, e.g. lines in a spectrum.

Origin

C17: from triple , on the pattern of doublet .

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