triplexes

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

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