Triplex
adj, name, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A building with three apartments or divisions. countable, uncountable
- 2 A dwelling unit with three floors. countable, uncountable
"There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]"
- 3 A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. countable, uncountable
- 4 Triple time. uncountable
- 5 Anything with three parts. countable, uncountable
"In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]."
- 1 To make triplex. transitive
- 1 Having three parts; triple or threefold.; Having three floors not-comparable
- 2 Having three parts; triple or threefold.; Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments not-comparable
- 1 having three units or components or elements wordnet
- 1 a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica). British
Example
More examples"There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]"
Etymology
From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.
Brand name, presumably tri- + -plex.
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