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tri

/tɹaɪ/

tri noun: triathlon.

Noun (1)

tri (plural tris)

  1. (attributive) triathlon
    • a tri bike
    • a tri suit
  2. triangle
    • The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. Anything within that range is sufficient to accommodate all superficial anatomical details without resort to optimization beyond normal model cleanup.2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters
    • Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91
  3. (colloquial, uncommon) triceps

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TRI

TRI

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Toxic Release Inventory.
  2. (US, abbreviation, initialism, artificial intelligence) Initialism of Toyota Research Institute.

Noun (2) capitalized: TRI

TRI (plural TRIs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Triple Reuptake Inhibitor.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tri

Tri (plural Tris)

  1. A surname from Vietnamese.

tri meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

tri in Hindi

त्रि

tri in Tamil

த்ரி

tri in Telugu

త్రి

tri in Malayalam

ത്രി
More languagesFewer languages
tri in Kannada
ತ್ರಿ, ಟ್ರಿ, ಟ್ರೈ
tri in Punjabi
ਟ੍ਰਾਈ, ਤ੍ਰਿ
tri in Gujarati
ત્રિ

Forms of tri

Noun
pluraltris
pluralTRIs
Proper noun
pluralTris

Origin of tri

Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

A Vietnamese surname.

Phrases with tri

Words that rhyme with tri

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tri

What does tri mean?
Tri means triathlon.
What is tri in Hindi?
Tri in Hindi is त्रि. See Tri meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tri?
Tri can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tri?
Tri is pronounced /tɹaɪ/.
What is the plural of tri?
The plural of tri is tris.

Words near tri in the dictionary

  1. tRFs
  2. TRG
  3. TRGB
  4. Trgl.
  5. TRH
  6. tri
  7. Tri Delt
  8. Tri Delts
  9. tri-
  10. tri-annual
  11. tri-armed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tri (page history and authors); TRI (page history and authors); Tri (page history and authors); tri (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tri (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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