Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a "
treble
Treble may refer to:
In 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 (musical group), a three-piece girl group from the Netherlands
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Sports
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Triple (baseball)
In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice. A triple is sometimes called ...
, 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:
* Triple Falls (California) — a 35 ft. waterfall located at Uvas Canyon County Park
* Triple Falls (North Carolina) — a 125 ft. waterfall located in the DuPont State Forest
* Triple Falls (Oregon)& ...
, 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
Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three Class I railroads cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City.
At the lowest (ground) level, the original Ri ...
, 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, a motorcycle engine from Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
* A
straight-three engine
A straight-three engine (also called an inline-triple or inline-three) is a three-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft.
Less common than straight-four engines, straight-three engines have nonet ...
* 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), 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 tuned 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 which the ringers commit to memor ...
of bells
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TripleS (group), South Korean girl group
See also
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Triple point, 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 the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down t ...
, 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 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), better known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler currently serving as the chief content officer for WWE. He is widely regarded as ...
, American professional wrestler
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Treble (disambiguation)
Treble may refer to:
In 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 (musical group), a three-piece girl group from the Netherlands
*T ...
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Triplet (disambiguation)
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Tripel, a style of beer
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