Triple: Definition and part of speech

Triple

  1. a. One of three; third.
  2. a. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
  3. a. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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