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Triple


Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a "treble":

Sports

  • Triple (baseball), a three-base hit
  • A basketball three-point field goal
  • A figure skating jump with three rotations
  • In bowling terms, three strikes in a row
  • In cycling, a crankset with three chainrings

Places

  • Triple Islands, an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada
  • Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada
  • Triple Falls (disambiguation), four waterfalls in the United States & Canada
  • Triple Glaciers, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
  • Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross
  • Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Transportation

  • Kawasaki triple, a Japanese motorcycle produced between 1969 and 1980
  • Triumph Triple, a motorcycle engine from Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
  • A straight-three engine
  • A semi-truck with three trailers

Science and technology

  • Triple (mathematics) (3-tuple), a list or sequence with three elements
  • Triple (category theory), a construction in algebraic topology, now usually called a monad
  • Semantic triple, the atomic data entity in the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Religion

  • Triple deity, a deity who appears in three forms
    • Triple goddess (Neopaganism), a divine female figure revered in Neopagan traditions

Other uses

  • Triple (novel), by Ken Follett
  • Triples (web series), a 2020 Indian web series
  • Triples (cereal), a breakfast cereal made by General Mills in the 1990s
  • A method of change ringing of bells
  • TripleS (group), South Korean girl group
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