triple

«triple» in Mova's school dictionary: three times as much or as many — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (triple); verb (triple, triples, tripled, tripling); noun (a triple, triples)

meaning for a pupil

1) Triple means three times as much or as many. tree →

2) Triple means having three parts or happening three times, like a triple jump. tree →

3) To triple is to become or make three times bigger. tree →

4) (maths) A triple can be a group of three numbers, like a Pythagorean triple. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, to triple a number is to multiply it by 3: tripling 5 gives 15. In sport, the triple jump is hop, step and jump; a triple in baseball lets the batter reach third base. In everyday life a triple scoop ice cream has three scoops. Phrases: triple the amount, triple jump, triple-decker, triple-check.

examples

• Triple 7 is 21. tree →
• The price of the toy tripled from £4 to £12. tree →
• I had a triple scoop ice cream! tree →
• She won the triple jump at sports day. tree →
• If you triple 10 metres, you get 30 metres. tree →
• A triple-decker sandwich has three layers. tree →
• Let's triple-check the answer before we hand it in. tree →
• 3, 4 and 5 make a Pythagorean triple. tree →

note

Maths meaning: triple = × 3. Compare double (× 2) and quadruple (× 4). «Tripled» means the new amount is three times the old, so it went up by twice the old amount: 4 tripled is 12, an increase of 8. «Treble» is a similar word, used more in the UK.

In the corpora

• Most babies roughly triple their birth weight in their first year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «triple» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.