triplex

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

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triplex (not comparable)

1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
   1. (architecture) Having three floors
   2. (architecture) Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments

• triplexity
• triplicity

triplex (countable and uncountable, plural triplexes)

1. A building with three apartments or divisions.
2. A dwelling unit with three floors.
   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Pure Language”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     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. (juggling) A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (music, uncountable) Triple time.
5. Anything with three parts.
   • 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     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 ].

• (building): threeplex

triplex (third-person singular simple present triplexes, present participle triplexing, simple past and past participle triplexed)

1. (transitive) To make triplex.

Borrowed from Latin triplex. In the sense “three-veneer plywood” likely a shortening of triplexhout.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.plɛks/

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• Hyphenation: tri‧plex

triplex (not comparable)

1. threefold

triplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of three veneers

• multiplex

From trēs (“three”) +‎ -plex (“-fold”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪ.pɫɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪riː.pleks]

triplex (genitive triplicis, adverb tripliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. triple, threefold

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• triplicēs
• triplicitās

• trēs

• >? Sicilian: trìprici
• → English: triplex, Triplex
• → French: triplex
• → German: Triplex-, Triplex
• → Italian: triplex, triplice (semi-learned)

• “triplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in two, three columns: agmine duplici, triplici
    
  • to draw up the army in three lines: aciem triplicem instruere (B. G. 1. 24)
    

Borrowed from French triplex.

triplex n (uncountable)

1. triplex