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triplex

triplex adjective: having three floors.

Adjective

triplex (not comparable)

  1. Having three floors.
  2. Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments.

Noun

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

  1. A building with three apartments or divisions.
    Synonyms:
    threeplex
  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. A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. (uncountable) 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

Verb

triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

  1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Proper noun capitalized: Triplex

Triplex

  1. (UK) a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).

Synonyms of triplex

Forms of triplex

Noun
pluraltriplexes
Verb
third-person singular presenttriplexes
present participletriplexing
past participletriplexed
pasttriplexed

Origin of triplex

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

Brand name, presumably tri- + -plex.

Words formed from triplex

Questions about triplex

What does triplex mean?
Triplex means having three floors.
What part of speech is triplex?
Triplex can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

Words near triplex in the dictionary

  1. triplets
  2. Triplett
  3. Tripletts
  4. triplety
  5. triplewise
  6. triplex
  7. triplexed
  8. triplexer
  9. triplexers
  10. triplexes
  11. triplexing

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