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triplex en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having three parts; triple or threefold. ▸ Having three floors.
  2. (not-comparable) Having three parts; triple or threefold. ▸ Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments.

Deriveds

heterotriplex · triplexer · triplexity · triplicity

triplex en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A building with three apartments or divisions.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A dwelling unit with three floors.
    • 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 […] 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Pure Language”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. (uncountable) Triple time.
  5. (countable, uncountable) Anything with three parts.
    • 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 ]. 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Forms

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triplexes Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

threeplex

triplex en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Forms

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triplexes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
triplexing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
triplexed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
triplexed Tense=Past lexicographic