triplex

A building with three apartments or divisions.

Adjective

  1. Having three parts; triple or threefold.

    1. (architecture) Having three floors

    2. (architecture) Having three units, divisions, suites, apartments

Origin

From Latin triplex. Analyzable as tri- + -plex.

Derived

heterotriplex triplexer triplexity triplicity

Noun

  1. A building with three apartments or divisions.
  2. A dwelling unit with three floors.
    • 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 […] -...
  3. A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. Triple time.
  5. Anything with three parts.
    • 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 ]. - 2015 October 16,...

Forms

triplexes

Synonyms

threeplex

Verb

  1. To make triplex.

Forms

triplexes triplexing triplexed