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Meanings of triplet in English

Portuguese
3
Catalan
3
Spanish
terceto

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

      3
      Russian
      триоль
      Portuguese
      tercina
      Catalan
      treset
      Spanish
      tresillo

      Rhythmic pattern common in Latin American and Sub-Saharan African music.

            триоль
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            Usage of triplet in English
            1
            Venn lifted the box, and behold a triplet of sixes was disclosed.
            The Return of the Native
            2
            The limits are compared with predictions from the Georgi-Machacek Higgs triplet model.
            Pubmed
            3
            I, smiling at the triplet of occasions, promised to come, if consistent.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 / Magazi...
            4
            Neurodegenerative diseases may be caused by expansion of triplet repeats in human genes.
            Pubmed
            5
            The triplet codon repeats lead to heterochromatin-mediated gene silencing and loss of frataxin.
            Pubmed
            6
            The inevitable triplet appears in the third bar, and is a hero throughout.
            Chopin : the Man and His Music
            7
            Or if you dislike mysticism, you could think of the Hegelian triplet: thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
            Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
            8
            The upper ones only differ by the addition of a triplet.
            Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Eleme...
            9
            Above these is the triplet lancet of the great west window.
            Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury / A Descrip...
            10
            I used the triplet, the freak, from out of my bag of tricks:
            Writing for Vaudeville
            11
            The original triplet unisons are so much more graceful and musical.
            Chopin : the Man and His Music
            12
            The CAG triplet is highly repetitive in the coding regions of insect genomes.
            Pubmed
            13
            Singha quietly passes over the entire second line of this triplet.
            The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
            14
            The advantage of the triplet is independent of NLR at baseline.
            Pubmed
            15
            Dreamsnakes were triploid, and they required a triplet, not a pair.
            Dreamsnake
            16
            It said it was the first such triplet birth ever.
            The Irish Times
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            Triplet through the time
            Triplet across language varieties
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