adjective, verb
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 having three parts or involving three people or groups:
a triple heart bypass operation * a triple alliance / partnership * They're showing a triple bill of horror movies (= three horror movies one after the other).
2 three times as much or as many as sth:
The amount of alcohol in his blood was triple the legal maximum. * Its population is about triple that of Venice. * a triple murderer (= one who has killed three people)
triply adverb
verb to become, or to make sth, three times as much or as many
SYNTREBLE:
[V] Output should triple by next year. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for triple is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does triple appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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