Meanings
triplex1
- Having three parts; triple or threefold.
- not comparablearchitectureHaving three floors.
- not comparablearchitectureHaving three units, divisions, suites, apartments.
plural triplexes
- 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 - countableuncountableartsA throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- uncountableentertainmentTriple time.
- 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
present singular third person triplexes · participle present triplexing · participle past triplexed · past triplexed
- transitiveTo make triplex.
Triplex2
- 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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Origin
triplex · adjective, noun, verb
- Latintriplex
- Englishtriplex
From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.
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triplex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triplex
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