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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#m1)

2) Triple means having three parts or happening three times, like a triple jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#m2)

3) To triple is to become or make three times bigger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#m3)

4) (maths) A triple can be a group of three numbers, like a Pythagorean triple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x1)
- The price of the toy tripled from £4 to £12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x2)
- I had a triple scoop ice cream! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x3)
- She won the triple jump at sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x4)
- If you triple 10 metres, you get 30 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x5)
- A triple-decker sandwich has three layers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x6)
- Let's triple-check the answer before we hand it in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x7)
- 3, 4 and 5 make a Pythagorean triple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/92-human-life-cycle/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «triple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/triple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.