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| trip·let [ trípplət ] (plural trip·lets) |
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1. one of 3 offspring: each of three children or animals that are delivered by the same mother during one birth
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2. group of 3: three things that are connected or related to each other in some way
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3. music group of 3 notes: a group of three notes played in the time usually taken by two notes of the same value
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4. poetry verse of 3 lines: a poetic stanza of three lines, usually with a single rhyme and sometimes sharing the same metrical pattern
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5. chemistry chemical unit with 2 unpaired electrons: an atom, molecule, or radical with two unpaired electrons
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6. physics group of 3 elementary particles: a group of three elementary particles with similar characteristics that differ only in their charge
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7. genetics
Same as codon
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| [Mid-17th century. <triple, after doublet] |
