Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a "
treble":
Sports
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Triple (baseball)
In baseball, a triple is the act of a Batter (baseball), batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error (baseball statistics), error) nor another baserunner, runner being put ...
, a three-base hit
* A basketball
three-point field goal
* A
figure skating jump with three rotations
* In
bowling terms, three strikes in a row
* In cycling, a
crankset with three chainrings
Places
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Triple Islands, an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada
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Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Triple Falls (disambiguation) Triple Falls may refer to:
* Uvas Canyon County Park, Triple Falls (California) — a 35 ft. waterfall located at Uvas Canyon County Park
* Triple Falls (DuPont State Forest), Triple Falls (North Carolina) — a 125 ft. waterfall l ...
, four waterfalls in the United States & Canada
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Triple Glaciers, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross
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Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Transportation
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Kawasaki triple, a Japanese motorcycle produced between 1969 and 1980
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Triumph Triple
The Triumph Triples are a family of modern DOHC straight-3, inline three-cylinder motorcycle engines made from 1990 onwards by the Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, Triumph Motorcycle Company at their Hinckley, Leicestershire factory. The inspiration f ...
, a motorcycle engine from Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
* A
straight-three engine
* A
semi-truck with three trailers
Science and technology
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Triple (mathematics) (3-tuple), a list or sequence with three elements
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Triple (category theory)
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad is a triple (T, \eta, \mu) consisting of a functor ''T'' from a category to itself and two natural transformations \eta, \mu that satisfy the conditions like associativity. For example, if F, ...
, a construction in algebraic topology, now usually called a monad
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Semantic triple, the atomic data entity in the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Religion
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Triple deity, a deity who appears in three forms
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Triple goddess (Neopaganism), a divine female figure revered in Neopagan traditions
Other uses
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''Triple'' (novel), by Ken Follett
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''Triples'' (web series), a 2020 Indian web series
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Triples (cereal), a breakfast cereal made by General Mills in the 1990s
* A method of
change ringing
Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuning (music), tuned bell (instrument), bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in ...
of bells
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TripleS (group)
TripleS (; ; stylized as tripleS) is a South Korean 24-member multinational girl group formed by Modhaus. They aim to be the world's first decentralized idol group, where the members will rotate between the full group, sub-units, and solo activ ...
, South Korean girl group
See also
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Triple point
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three Phase (matter), phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.. It is that temperature and pressure at ...
, in thermodynamics, the temperature and pressure at which three states of matter can co-exist
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Triple jump
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...
, a track and field event
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Triple metre
Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a ''primary'' division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 ( compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with , a ...
, a musical metre characterized by a primary division of three beats to the bar
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Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer.
Levesque began his wres ...
, American professional wrestler
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Comic triple
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Treble (disambiguation)
Treble may refer to:
Music
*Treble (sound), tones of high frequency or range, the counterpart of bass
*Treble voice, a choirboy or choirgirl singing in the soprano range
*Treble clef, a symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes
*Treble (m ...
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Triplet (disambiguation)
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Tripel, a style of beer
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