tripleadjective
uk/ˈtrɪp.əl/us/ˈtrɪp.əl/having three parts of the same type, or happening three times:
Her trainer is a triple Olympic champion.
There's a triple bill of Hitchcock films (= three films) on at the cinema next Sunday.
triple sth
three times as large as something:
The number of one-parent households reached 10.1 million in 2011, nearly triple that of 1981.
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Numbers: single, double & multiple
- alone
- binary
- deca-
- double (up) as sth
- double-action
- double-digit
- dualism
- duality
- herself
- individual
- mono
- multi-
- multilateral
- multiple
- none
- odd
- solely
- treble
- unilateral
- unit
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tripleverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈtrɪp.əl/us/ˈtrɪp.əl/to increase three times in size or amount, or to make something do this:
We have tripled our output over the past two years.
The workforce has tripled in size since the new factory opened.
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Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- coefficient
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisible
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- table
- times
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