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Triplex

Triplex \Tri"plex\, a. (Mach.) Having three principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.

Wiktionary
triplex

a. 1 Having three parts; triple or threefold. 2 (context architecture English) Having three floors or other divisions. n. 1 A building with three apartments or divisions 2 (qualifier: juggling) throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.

WordNet
triplex

adj. having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows" [syn: ternary, treble, triple]

Wikipedia
Triplex

Triplex may refer to:

  • Triplex (building), a dwelling composed of three units
  • Triplex (film), a French comedy film
  • Triplex (typeface), a family of typefaces designed by Zuzana Licko for Emigre in 1989
  • Triplex Safety Glass, brand now owned by Pilkington
  • Triplex (locomotive), a type of locomotive with three sets of cylinders and driving wheels
  • Triplex (genetics), also known as Triple-stranded DNA
  • an instance when one physical road bears three different highway, motorway, or other route numbers
  • D-type Triplex (New York City Subway car), a 3-section articulated New York City Subway Car
  • Triplex (gastropod), a subgenus of the sea snail genus Chicoreus
  • Triplex (automobile) late 1920s speed record automobile
  • Triplex (espionage), code name of a British World War II espionage operation
Triplex (film)

Triplex is a French film directed by Georges Lautner, and released in 1991.

Triplex (locomotive)

A Triplex locomotive is a steam locomotive that divides the driving force on its wheels by using three pairs of cylinders rigidly mounted to a single locomotive frame. Inevitably any such locomotive will be articulated. All the examples that have been produced have been of the Mallet type but with one extra set of driving wheels under the tender.

Triplex (typeface)

The Triplex type font style is a typeface designed by Zuzana Licko and John Downer in 1985 and 1989. It is distributed by Emigre. It is used by Prezi for its logo. It has both Sans-serif and Serif variation.

John Downer first designed sans-serif Triplex Italic in 1985, then Zuzana Licko designed the other fonts in the family, including Triplex Sans and Triplex Serif.

Triplex (espionage)

Triplex or XXX was the code name of a British espionage operation in World War II which involved secretly copying the contents of diplomatic pouches of neutral countries.

Due to travel security restrictions to and from Britain during some periods of the war, the government was able to forbid the use of the embassies' own couriers to transport pouches or was able to separate the courier from the pouch to "sensor" the passenger. This provided opportunities to access the pouch and copy the contents for later analysis.

Anthony Blunt, while working for MI5, was a supervisor of the Triplex operation.

Usage examples of "triplex".

Well, triplex and antisense agents are strands of specially designed DNA.

Apex is interested in antisense and triplex agents, but we have always .

Triplex oligonucleotides insert themselves inside particular genes, turning the double helix of DNA into a triple helix, hence the name.

You're in kind of a triplex arrangement, and Cherenkov has the one highest up.

The man frowned, shook his head then continued drunkenly and began explaining how the triplex here was latticed with rabbit warrens of rooms McKennah described as dens and parlors and music rooms and entertainment spaces.

The duplexes and triplexes here were old and shoved unhappily together.