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third
  1. The person or thing in the third position.
  2. One of three equal parts of a whole.
  3. (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.
  4. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
  5. (baseball) third base
  6. A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
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  8. Examples:
    1. “I was so hungry that I ate a third of the pie.”
      “Collins, who came in third in the race, won the eight-way Republican primary with only 22 percent of the vote.”
      “I put the car into third gear and gave it a little bit more gas.”
triplet
  1. A group of three.
  2. One of a group of three.
  3. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
  4. (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
  5. (physics) A triquark.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The band performed a spectacular show featuring a vocal triplet, harmonizing flawlessly together.”
      “In another place, you have a rest that is accidentally written as three triplet quarter rests, rather than a half rest.”
      “This led to hydrogen abstraction from dioxane by curcumin triplet state and the formation of the corresponding ketyl radical.”
triple
  1. (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
  2. (US) A hamburger with three patties.
  3. (baseball) A three-base hit
  4. (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
  5. (mathematics) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “I need a double, no, make that a triple.”
three
  1. The digit/figure 3.
  2. Anything measuring three units, as length.
  3. A person who is three years old.
  4. The playing card featuring three pips.
  5. (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The three stood quietly in the center of the circle.”
threeness
  1. The state of being three; triunity; trinity.
  2. A group of three; a trio.
  3. (religious) The Trinity.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “After their successful collaboration on the project, they formed a threeness - a trio that would forever be known for their exceptional teamwork and creativity.”
      “There is such a thing as threeness, or fourness, and the threeness of three cannot be added to the fourness of four.”
threes
  1. The age of three; three years old.
  2. (poker) A pair of threes.
  3. (basketball) Three point shots.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “At a game of three card brag at work once, I had a prial of threes and my opponent had a prial of aces.”
      “In this version all the threes and the two jokers are wild cards that can represent any other card.”
      “They tend to come in threes, though a single fleuron can be useful to indicate the beginning of a paragraph.”
threesies
  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where three actions must be performed.
  2. (childish) The sharing of something between three people.
  3. Examples:
    1. “She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round.”
threeling
  1. One of three children born at the same birth; triplet.
  2. A twoling, or twin crystal, composed of three individuals.
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triplestore
  1. (databases) A database designed for the storage and retrieval of RDF (Resource Description Framework) metadata in the form of triples.
thirdings
  1. (Britain, law) One third of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, paid to the lord as a heriot.
triplegia
  1. A medical condition characterised by the paralysis of three limbs.
triplot
  1. A triangular chart showing the relationships between three variables.
triplicity
  1. The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The triplicity of waters will give birth to a man who will choose Thursday as his holy day.”
      “The primary meaning may be mystical, but paradoxical triplicity is very much in the spirit of the poem.”
      “Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten.”
tripline
  1. A concealed wire or string that sets off an alarm or activates a trap when tripped.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I stumbled upon a tripline while exploring the abandoned house, triggering a loud alarm that echoed through the halls.”
triplon
  1. (physics) A quasiparticle associated with triplet states
triplicate
threetangle
  1. (physics) The entanglement of three qubits
threeish
  1. (colloquial) Any time close to three o'clock.
triplication
  1. The action or result of triplicating.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Because of triplication of genetic material, wheat can tolerate the loss of whole chromosomes, arms, and segments.”
      “About 70 million years ago, some lucky mishap in the process of cell division led to a triplication of the Solanum genome.”
      “Usually the triplication of a genome would be a considerable handicap, saddling a plant with three times as much DNA as it needs.”
threefoldness
  1. The property of being threefold.
tripleness
  1. The state of being triple or tripled.
thirdness
  1. The quality of being or coming third.
thre
  1. Obsolete spelling of three
threy
  1. Obsolete spelling of three
threesome
  1. A group of three people.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The boastful vibe of a woman strutting her stuff on the catwalk and feeling fine was, in fact, inspired by the musical threesome of Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland on their song 'Give It To Me'.”
      “Tell her you didn't really mean it about wanting to have a threesome with her best friend.”
      “One night we were having a threesome with a male friend of ours that had been staying with us for a few days.”
threefold
  1. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 3.
thirds
triples
triplications
  1. plural of triplication
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In such an argument there would always be matter for answers, rejoinders, replications, triplications, quadruplications, and that infinite web of disputes.”
      “In 2004, it set up a Joint Requirements Council in an effort to eliminate duplication, and sometimes, triplications of efforts within the department.”
      Triplications in pay, recruiting, public relations and intelligence services added to costs at the expense of efficiency.”
threetangles
  1. plural of threetangle
triplestores
  1. plural of triplestore
triplicates
  1. plural of triplicate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One set of triplicates was autoclaved twice, with a 24-hour room temperature incubation between autoclavings, and used as sterile controls for the mineralization assay.”
triplicities
threesomes
  1. plural of threesome
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Later, threesomes left together in the dark cars that the men had somehow managed to park in the highway underpass where the disco is located.”
      “The earliest days of the feminist movement had featured sexual orgies, and my interest in exploring threesomes remained consistent.”
      “In the interim, the decision was made to go with threesomes instead of the normal twosomes and to send groups off both tees.”
triplegias
  1. plural of triplegia
threefolds
  1. plural of threefold
threelings
threenesses
triplings
  1. plural of tripling
triplines
triplets
  1. plural of triplet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Becoming a parent can be a daunting experience, but she and her husband had treble the shock when they learned they were expecting triplets.”
      “Voicing in many pieces is made more advanced by placing the melody in the same hand as many moving sixteenth notes or triplets.”
      “Rates of multiple births vary from country to country, but typically something like one in 7000 to 10000 births are naturally triplets.”
triplons
  1. plural of triplon
triplots
  1. plural of triplot
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