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tripling, vbl. n.|ˈtrɪplɪŋ|
[f. triple v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb triple.
1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 94 It is a great..wonder for a man to double himselfe; and those that talke of tripling, know not, nor cannot reach unto the height of it. 1630R. Delamain Grammelogia **j, The doubling, tripling [etc.] of Circles. 1853Sir W. R. Hamilton Lect. Quarternions ii. 53 Two successive acts, of negatively doubling and negatively tripling, compound themselves into the single act of positively sextupling.
b. spec. See triple v. 1 c.
1891Times 26 Oct. 4/3 There is a fair amount of tripling of engines in old vessels ordered.
2. concr.
a. pl. Three children at a birth; triplets.
1858Lewes Sea-side Stud. 246 This multiplication of individuals from one egg, this production of twins, or triplings, is a constant fact.
b. Min. A compound crystal made up of three independent individuals; a trilling, trin.
1895Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §157 Such crystals are triple, quadruple, &c. hemitropes (or triplings, fourlings. &c.). |