triplex

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adjective

Having three floors.

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

triplex1

adjectivetriplex (not comparable)
  1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
    1. not comparablearchitectureHaving three floors.
    2. not comparablearchitectureHaving three units, divisions, suites, apartments.
nountriplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

plural triplexes

  1. countableuncountableA building with three apartments or divisions.

    Synonyms: threeplex

  2. countableuncountableA 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. countableuncountableartsA throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. uncountableentertainmentTriple time.
  5. countableuncountableAnything 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
verbtriplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

present singular third person triplexes · participle present triplexing · participle past triplexed · past triplexed

  1. transitiveTo make triplex.

Triplex2

proper noun
  1. UKa safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA building with three apartments or divisions.

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More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving three units or components or elements

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

triplex · adjective, noun, verb

  1. Latintriplex
  2. Englishtriplex

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

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Triplex · proper noun

Brand name, presumably tri- + -plex.

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Chicago

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