<adj.all> a ternary operation a treble row of red beads overcrowding made triple sessions necessary triple time has three beats per measure triplex windows
three times as great or many
<adj.all> a claim for treble (or triple) damages a threefold increase
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. --Dryden.
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.
It has rich reserves of oil and natural gas, a strategic location and triple the population of any other gulf country.
A successful touchdown on Santorini (Thira) would more than triple the exisiting record of 22.5 miles for straight-line human-powered flight, set by Bryan Allen piloting the Gossamer Albatross across the English channel in 1979.
A Salomon official, after a few expletives, says the offer was more like triple the trader's previous pay.
Consumer complaints against airlines in May rose 34% from the previous month, and were almost triple the year-earlier level, the Transportation Department said.
Max Klotz, manager of permits of the Oregon Transportation Department, says Oregon has permitted triple 28-foot trailers on major highways for the past 20 years.
Takahashi said inflationary pressure in Japan has created a "triple low" phenomenon _ a simultaneous decline in securities, yen and government bond prices.
He referred to last Friday's triple witching, or the same-day expiration of stock-index futures and options and individual stock options.
Small-business owners are facing a tax change that could triple the state taxes some pay.
Mr. Maxwell has said frequently he wants Maxwell Communication's revenue to at least triple by 1990, from about #1 billion this year.
Mr Furuichi says this year MCA profits are expected to climb by double digits, yet to make short-term financial sense, growth in triple digits would be required. The cost of the acquisition has weighed heavily on Matsushita's balance sheet.
It accumulated $906,868 in cash-nearly triple the $314,041 value of its physical plant in 1989.
That's triple the 1984 budget.
Much of the financial world's attention was focused on Friday, when the markets have a date with the quarterly "triple witching hour" involving a set of expiring options and futures on stock indexes.
In addition, the jury said that NEC had willfully infringed on Wang's patents, permitting the judge to triple the award payable by NEC.
InfoChip Systems Inc., a small company in Santa Clara, Calif., says it has an easy way to increase capacity, and without bigger disk drives: It has a chip that it says will roughly triple the capacity of current disk drives.
The faults have become more glaring. The trouble is that there is nothing to show that this Antony either was or deserved to be a triple pillar of the world.
A man who said he posed as an American Indian because he was fascinated by their culture actually thought Indian women should be killed, a prosecutor said Monday in opening arguments for a triple murder trial.
Japanese newspapers bemoaned the record price jump in Tokyo, where residential real estate land rose 68.9 percent last year, nearly twice the previous high of 35.9 percent in 1973 and almost triple the increase in 1986 of 23.8 percent.
A federal prosecutor alleged that about 400 doctors took illegal kickbacks from four Pennsylvania medical labs, and letters are being sent to all the doctors to ask them to pay triple the amount of the alleged kickbacks or face fraud suits.
This quarterly event is known as the "triple witching hour." But some analysts think the program traders got the selling out of their system yesterday.
Gerber also is seeking unspecified triple damages.
The month's overall price climb was triple the already brisk 0.6 percent gain in December and far above economists' average forecast of about 1.2 percent.
His replacement, veteran Rick Honeycutt, allowed hits to the first four men who batted in the eighth, with catcher Harper's opposite-field triple the key blow.
Though the Dow reached a new high, overall stock prices were mixed as the market absorbed the impact of a quarterly "triple witching hour." The market also monitored a flurry of fresh economic data.
Harmon was a triple threat tailback at Michigan who won the Heisman Trophy and The Associated Press Athlete of the Year Award in 1940.
Do you guys/gals really know a double jump from a triple?
Stocks rose slightly on buying tied to "triple witching" expirations.
It raised a $1 billion equity fund last year from pension funds and other institutional investors, triple the size of its previous fund.
It invites, and receives, quick, bright, small-scale dancing from its cast. Tombeaux is at the centre of new Opera House triple bill which begins with Firebird.
So plastic surgery is forecast to triple in the next decade.