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Any of three things that correspond to one another exactly
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triplicate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triplicate \Trip"li*cate\, a. [L. triplicatus, p. p. of triplicare to triple, treble; tri- (see Tri- ) + plicare to fold. See Ply , v. t.] Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "triple, threefold," from Latin triplicatus , past participle of triplicare "to triple," from tri- "three" (see tri- ) + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.1)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Triplicate (foaled 1941) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse . He was sired by the 1928 American Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Reigh Count . His dam was Fairday, a daughter of another Hall of Fame inductee, Fair Play . 1 Triplicate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. n. Each of a set of three identical objects or copies. v 1 (context transitive English) To make three identical copies of something. 2 (context transitive English) To triple.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All cultures were performed in triplicate . ▪ All melting curves were measured in triplicate . ▪ All samples were tested in triplicate using at least two different dilutions. ▪ All the enzyme assays were run in triplicate . ▪ ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly v. reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee"
Usage examples of triplicate.
She hears people gibbering about Osama and al-Qaeda and she tries to think of the awful fireball approaching and the panic and the noise and the pyrolytic reek of burning aviation fuel and those microseconds of blind terror and all she can concentrate on is the window repairman with his bag of tools and triplicate dockets to sign.
Muammar Baraka listened to the endless reports that had been typed in triplicate by British typists on German typewriters with electricity supplied by American generators run by Belgian mechanics.
Everyone with something to say about this has to be tracked down and given an opportunity to give his fardling opinion in triplicate.
I can prove that the crime in the Rue de Londres exists in triplicate?
The concertgoers certainly deserved to have all the love they projected given back to them in triplicate.
Kill some dumb-ass human and they make you fill out a zillion forms in triplicate.
Sensory stalks near the top of the central mass are also triplicated, providing multiperspective audio and video imagery at all points in a full circle around the Krul.
The triplicate aura of his Firelord's defences burnished the passage with glare, far too late to escape.
They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters.
Well, nebbish-like Mo Jahelka keeps triplicate sets of books for the franchise holders, whiz at figures that he is, and Davey Goldman, stuck in stir with his boss, walks Mickey Cohen, Jr.
Jessan heard the dull, irregular thudding of an official stamp being pounded down in all the required locations on a set of forms in triplicate.
There was photosynthesis, from the thick moss which grew over every outside surface including the tower walls, and triplicated digestive tracts which were fed from the tonnes of krill-analogues captured by baleen scoops around the rim.
This nearly always resulted in the reluctant official involved signing in triplicate for whatever was needed.
That same morning, as all the experts and high officials of the secret police shook their heads, bleary-eyed after a sleepless night, the constructors asked for quartz, vanadium, steel, copper, platinum, rhinestones, dysprosium, yttrium and thulium, also cerium and germanium, and most of the other elements that make up the Universe, plus a variety of machines and qualified technicians, not to mention a wide as sortment of spies--for so insolent had the constructors become, that on the triplicate requisition form they boldly wrote: "Also, kindly send agents of various cuts and stripes at the discretion and with the approval of the Proper Authorities.
A truly systemic failure would have to be so exactly triplicated that, eventually, it would be identified as deliberate.