Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of three parts; threefold; triple.
- adjective Having three apartments, divisions, or floors.
- noun Something, such as an apartment building, that is triplex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Three-fold; triple; specifically, having three elements or working parts: used of pulleys with three sheaves, of pumps with three plungers, of steam-engines with three cylinders, etc.
- noun Triple time in music.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mach.) Having three principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having three parts;
triple orthreefold . - adjective architecture Having three floors or other divisions.
- noun A
building with threeapartments ordivisions - noun juggling throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having three units or components or elements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now a new triplex is being constructed just across the street by West Hill Homes.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Also like The Hours, which reworked Virginia Woolf, this narrative triplex is built on a bookish foundation: the poetry and ontology of Walt Whitman.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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Also like The Hours, which reworked Virginia Woolf, this narrative triplex is built on a bookish foundation: the poetry and ontology of Walt Whitman.
New Fiction Joseph O'Neil 2005
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Carly Otness/BFA DJ Nick Cohen Ludlow Manor, Mr. Carl's latest foray into nightlife, is an over-the-top triplex space with a tapas restaurant on the ground floor and palm trees on the rooftop.
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Property records show that they sold two of the other apartments, including a triplex on West 72nd Street for slightly more than they paid for them.
Luxury Units Hitting Highs With Buyers Josh Barbanel 2011
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But the pace of these sales—including a triplex loft on Prince Street that went for $25 million, and a three-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West that sold for $24.5 million—have been increasing, creating a sense of excitement in the market.
Apartments in Manhattan on Split Paths Josh Barbanel 2011
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The last available unit, a roughly 3,400-square-foot triplex with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a library, media room and chef's kitchen, just went into contract for an as-yet undisclosed amount, according to Reid Price , the managing director at Town, which marketed the property.
Sutton Place: If Only Ritzy Is Good Enough Sushil Cheema 2011
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But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot.
Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price Josh Barbanel 2011
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Rates generally start around $400 a night; four triplex suites command $20,000, Ms. Lefkowitz said.
Deal Set for Palace Dawn Wotapka 2011
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Thrown by InStyle, this was at the home of Marty and Barbara Zweig, the triplex penthouse of the Pierre they purchased in 1999 for $21.5 million.
A Perfect Night for Parties on the Terrace Marshall Heyman 2011
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