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triplicate

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English

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Etymology

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Early 15th century. FromLatintriplicātus,perfect passive participle oftriplicō(“to triple”) (see-ate), fromtri-(“three”) +plicō(“to fold”).^[1] Bysurface analysis,tri-(“three”) +‎plicate, analogous withduplicate.

Pronunciation

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(adjective and noun)IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.kət/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(verb)IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.keɪt/
Audio(Southern England): (file)

Adjective

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triplicate (notcomparable)

Made thrice as much;threefold;tripled.
Synonyms:seeThesaurus:threefold

Noun

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triplicate (countable anduncountable,pluraltriplicates)

(uncountable) The making of three identical copies of something.
- 2020 July 20,Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, inThe Guardian‎^[1]:
  The prime minister is a determined centralist in thrall to a tactless and obsessive aide, Cummings, whose skill seems limited to writing slogans intriplicate.
(countable) Each of a set of threeidentical objects orcopies.
- 2022, Vincent Busigny, François P. Mathon, Didier Jézéquel, Cécile C. Bidaud, Eric Viollier, Gérard Bardoux, Jean-Jacques Bourrand, Karim Benzerara, Elodie Duprat, Nicolas Menguy, Caroline L. Monteil, Christopher T. Lefevre, “Mass collection of magnetotactic bacteria from the permanently stratified ferruginous Lake Pavin, France”, inEnvironmental Microbiology, volume24, number 2 (Special Issue: microbe:metal/metalloid interactions),→DOI, pages721-736:
  Among the six bottles, three of them were pumped every 30 minutes and the three others every 60 minutes. This provided atriplicate of each condition (30 or 60 minutes idle time between pumping).

Translations

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each of a set of three identical objects

Verb

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triplicate (third-person singular simple presenttriplicates,present participletriplicating,simple past and past participletriplicated)