triplex

adj, noun, verb — 8 senses

triplex

adj

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

› Having three parts; triple or threefold.

1

Architecture Having three floors.

2

Architecture Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments.

Derived terms
heterotriplex, triplexer, triplexity, triplicity

triplex

noun

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

1

A building with three apartments or divisions.

2

A 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

Arts, Hobbies, Juggling, Lifestyle, Performing arts, Sports A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.

4

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Triple time.

5

Anything 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:

triplex

verb

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

1

To make triplex.

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