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発音

• (adjective and noun) IPA: /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.kət/
• (verb) IPA: /ˈtɹɪp.lɪ.keɪt/

形容詞

triplicate (not comparable)

1. Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:threefold

名詞

triplicate (countable and uncountable, plural triplicates)

1. (uncountable) The making of three identical copies of something.
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

2. (countable) Each of a set of three identical objects or copies.
   • 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. Monteil, Christopher T. Lefevre, “Mass collection of magnetotactic bacteria from the permanently stratified ferruginous Lake Pavin, France”, in Environmental Microbiology, volume 24, number 2 (Special Issue: microbe:metal/metalloid interactions), →DOI, pages 721-736:

     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).

動詞

triplicate (third-person singular simple present triplicates, present participle triplicating, simple past and past participle triplicated)

1. (transitive) To make three identical copies of something.
   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

     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.

2. (transitive) To triple.

等位語

• sesquiplicate – one and a half times
• duplicate – two times

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