tricolon

plural tricolons · plural tricola

1. rhetoricA sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses.

   By my count, that’s three tricolons in just over 100 words. It’s almost impossible to make A.I. stop saying “It’s not X, it’s Y” — unless you tell it to write a story, in which case it’ll drop the format for a more literary “No X. No Y. Just Z.”

   2025 December 3, Sam Kriss, “Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025

plural tricolons

1. The symbol ⟨⁝⟩, a colon with three dots instead of two.