triplicate
The making of three identical copies of something.
Adjective
- Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
Synonyms: triple triplicate threefold thrissome
Origin
Early 15th century. From Latin triplicātus, perfect passive participle of triplicō (“to triple”) (see -ate), from tri- (“three”) + plicō (“to fold”). By surface analysis, tri- (“three”) + plicate, analogous with duplicate.
Derived
Noun
- The making of three identical copies of something.
- The prime minister is a determined centralist in thrall to a tactless and obsessive aide, Cummings, whose skill seems limited to writing slogans in triplicate. - 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better...
- Each of a set of three identical objects or copies.
- Among the six bottles, three of them were pumped every 30 minutes and the three others every 60 minutes. This provided a triplicate of each condition (30 or 60 minutes idle time between pumping). - 2022, Vincent...
Forms
Verb
- To make three identical copies of something.
- Suppose we duplicate actual numbers that are out in circulation, and perhaps hold over the originals? We can triplicate, quadruple, multiply by a hundred times if it suits our purpose. - 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo...
- To triple.