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Tribble
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
"Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”"
- 1 A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.
- 2 A fictional alien creature in Star Trek, a fast-breeding, cooing ball of fur.
"Scales have proliferated like tribbles in quadra-triticale: just intonations, equal temperaments, scales based on overtones, scales generated from a single interval or pair of intervals, scales without octaves, scales arising from arcane mathematical formulas, scales that reflect cosmological or religious structures, scales that "come from the heart.""
Etymology
Unknown. The Century Dictionary suggests possibly a corruption of cribble (“sieve”).
Probably invented for alliteration with trouble; the creatures first appeared in an episode called "The Trouble with Tribbles".
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