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Vinony

triplex

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

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

  1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
  2. Having three parts; triple or threefold.

name

Etymology: Brand name, presumably tri- + -plex.

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

noun

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

  1. A building with three apartments or divisions.
  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 […]”

  3. A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. 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 ].”

verb

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

  1. To make triplex.