triplex
/tɹɪplˈɛks/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]"
- "In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Transitive verb
- British usage