Meaning & use

triplet

noun·Academic

One of three children born at the same birth, or any group of three similar things.

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The triplets each had a distinct personality despite looking almost identical.

The poem's final stanza was arranged as a rhyming triplet instead of a couplet.

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In music, a triplet is a group of three notes played in the time normally taken by two.

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