triplicate
/ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.kət/
triplicate adjective: made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Adjective
triplicate (not comparable)
- Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Noun
triplicate (countable and uncountable, plural triplicates)
- The making of three identical copies of something.
- The prime minister is a determined centralist in thrall to a tactless and obsessive aide, Cummings, whose skill seems limited to writing slogans in triplicate.2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian
- Each of a set of three identical objects or copies.
- Among the six bottles, three of them were pumped every 30 minutes and the three others every 60 minutes. This provided a triplicate of each condition (30 or 60 minutes idle time between pumping).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....
Verb
IPA/ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.keɪt/
triplicate (third-person singular simple present triplicates, present participle triplicating, simple past and past participle triplicated)
- To make three identical copies of something.
- Suppose we duplicate actual numbers that are out in circulation, and perhaps hold over the originals? We can triplicate, quadruple, multiply by a hundred times if it suits our purpose.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
- To triple.
triplicate meaning in Tamil and Kannada
triplicate in Tamil
- முப்படிகள், முப்படியாக, மூன்றாம் படி, மூன்றாம்படி
triplicate in Kannada
- ಮೂರು ಪ್ರತಿ
Examples of triplicate in a sentence
- Each experiment was performed in triplicate on different batches of oocytes.
- Punches were placed in haemolysing reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific), in duplicate or triplicate, and incubated at room temperature with shaking.
- Enzyme activities were measured spectrophotometricly in triplicate and expressed as changes of absorbance per minute per mg protein.
Synonyms of triplicate
Forms of triplicate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | triplicates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | triplicates |
| present participle | triplicating |
| past participle | triplicated |
| past | triplicated |
Origin of triplicate
Early 15th century. From Latin triplicātus, perfect passive participle of triplicō (“to triple”) (see -ate), from tri- (“three”) + plicō (“to fold”). By surface analysis, tri- (“three”) + plicate, analogous with duplicate.
Words formed from triplicate
Questions about triplicate
- What does triplicate mean?
- Triplicate means made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
- What is triplicate in Tamil?
- Triplicate in Tamil is முப்படிகள், முப்படியாக, மூன்றாம் படி. See Triplicate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is triplicate?
- Triplicate can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce triplicate?
- Triplicate is pronounced /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.kət/.
Words near triplicate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: triplicate (page history and authors); triplicate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); triplicate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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