three-pronged
three-pronged adjective: having three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
Adjective
three-pronged (not comparable)
- Having three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
- A three-pronged attack to bridge the gap between current and budgeted performance envisaged £31m in revenue growth, £47m in cost reduction and £25m from redefining the InterCity route network [...].2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66
- Synonyms:
- tridental
Synonyms of three-pronged
Origin of three-pronged
From three + pronged.
Questions about three-pronged
- What does three-pronged mean?
- Three-pronged means having three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
- What part of speech is three-pronged?
- Three-pronged is an adjective.
Words near three-pronged in the dictionary
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