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triplet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For example, many twins and triplets are born prematurely and suffer more physical problems related to low birthweight and undeveloped lungs. ▪ I am a very proud Grandma of three boys - triplets - born last September.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "three successive lines of poetry," from triple ; perhaps patterned on doublet . Extended to a set of three of anything by 1733, and to three children at the same birth by 1787 (another word for this was trin , 1831, on the model of twin ). Musical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triplet \Trip"let\, n. [From Triple .] A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united. (Poetry) Three verses rhyming together. (Mus.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two. pl. Three children or offspring born at one birth. ...
Usage examples of triplet.
The triplet AGU thus codes for the same thing as its Chargaff anticodon UCA on the other strand.
She would make a perfect triplet to the Blas twins, cast in living gold.
Their genetic code had been based on triplet base sequences strung on a DNA double helix, reinforcing the modified HoyleWickramasinghe panspermia hypothesis that all life in the Solar System, including the long-extinct Martian microflora, had a common ancestor.
Cyfer will appreciate the implications: a colinear, unidirectional, non-overlapping, redundant triplet code.
The triplet found their dobu at the food tables, his mouth full of a red potato salad that had been delicately bittered with profane fruit.
A simple lookup table, one or more triplets of nucleotides to each amino acid, is universal for all life.
When I went into the bar to tell Irving what a good job he had done, Mademoiselle Markoff was waiting for me, wearing a red gown that would have been roomy on most Siamese triplets, but that fit her so snugly that I could see the huge mole on her left thigh right through it.
The Lancet quotes a rather fabulous account of a lady over sixty-two years of age who gave birth to triplets, making her total number of children 13.
And at that exact moment, in New York, Olivia began having pains again, only mild ones this time, she said something to Charles and he pretended to look faint, and said please, not triplets.
He noted the triplets reaction with a cursory glance, focusing his gaze on Amanda.
About noon Bushwyck Carr bounced into the gymnasium, where the triplets had just finished their fencing lesson.
The triplets continued to stand in a neat row, the buttons of their foils aligned and resting on the hardwood floor.
Only the unmarried triplets, Flavilla and Drusilla, remained amiably indifferent in the midst of all these family financial scurryings and preparations to secure world patents in a monopoly which promised the social regeneration of the globe.
Though separate, they were closer than triplets, because of an incidental legacy of the chimaera: telepathy.
On either side of his head flapped audient protuberances like sails, ears so colossally huge that the triplets afterwards revealed that when his head popped out they had thought, for one bad moment, that it was the head of a tiny elephant.