triplex

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having three parts; triple or threefold.
2. (not-comparable)Having three parts; triple or threefold.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A building with three apartments or divisions.
2. (countable, uncountable)A dwelling unit with three floors.

   “There were influential and corruptible people like his friend, Max, onetime singer for the Pink Buttons, now a wind-power potentate who owned a SoHo triplex and threw a caviar-strewn Christmas party each year […]”

3. (countable, uncountable)A throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (uncountable)Triple time.
5. (countable, uncountable)Anything with three parts.

   “In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].”

verb

1. (transitive)To make triplex.

name

1. (British)a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).