What's the difference between trinity and triplicity?
Trinity
Definition:
(n.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
(n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
(n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(2) News International will face stiff resistance from rivals such as Sunday Mirror and People publisher Trinity Mirror and Daily Star Sunday owner Northern & Shell, which benefited from the closure of News of the World last July.
(3) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(4) Back in 2001, the Guardian Media Group partnered with Associated to print Metro in Manchester, while Trinity Mirror joined forces with Associated in a similar arrangement in Liverpool and Cardiff in 2006.
(5) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
(6) In a statement to the London stock exchange, Trinity Mirror said Bailey had ensured the company delivered robust profits through the worst and longest economic downturn in UK history.
(7) Trinity Mirror attempted to placate investors in April with a new pay deal for Bailey that reduced her remuneration by about £500,000, but that failed to satisfy some major shareholders.
(8) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
(9) Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, said that the company made £25m in savings and would have increased adjusted operating profits year-on-year if not for a £22m rise in newsprint prices.
(10) Trinity Mirror could face at least two more legal actions over alleged phone hacking, including from a former football manager, according to the lawyer who brought civil claims against the company's newspapers on Monday.
(11) The FoI figures revealed that the Discovery School in Newcastle opened with only a third of its planned pupil numbers, the Harris Academy in Tottenham, north London, opened with 58 pupils, rather than the planned 240, and the Trinity Academy in Lambeth, south London, opened with 15 pupils when it had planned to admit 120.
(12) This compares favourably with rivals Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror, which recently reported sliding profits and 4.6% and 8.7% first-half declines in total revenues respectively.
(13) "[The] restructuring proposals for its UK national titles represent the next stage in [our] aim to create one of the most technologically advanced and operationally efficient multimedia newsrooms in Europe," Trinity Mirror said.
(14) The industry's representatives at these talks were not two Tory peers, but a group of four including the Legal Director of Trinity Mirror, and the Director of the Newspaper Society, both representing the regional newspapers so regrettably excluded from the Delauney meeting.
(15) This was fronted at first by Lord Black of Brentwood, the Conservative peer who is a director of the Telegraph group, and latterly by Paul Vickers, a director of Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror.
(16) Justin Welby , formerly of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, embarked on a reconciliation between Shell and the Ogoni people of south-east Nigeria.
(17) A union spokesman said: "The cull comes after the total directors' pay and pensions bill for Trinity Mirror last year was £3.9m – £1.3m of which was cash bonuses.
(18) However, to compensate Bailey, Trinity Mirror said that its chief executive would be eligible to receive a higher long-term incentive scheme.
(19) However Trinity Mirror said it remained "confident" that the company will "deliver a robust performance" in 2010 in line with expectations.
(20) Trinity Mirror's Daily Record circulated 330,316 copies in Scotland each day on average last month.
Triplicity
Definition:
(a.) The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
(2) One hundred isolates were tested in triplicate, and geometric mean MICs were plotted against arithmetic mean zone diameters and regression statistics calculated.
(3) All mixtures were prepared in triplicate and added with water.
(4) Nine gamma gene triplications from seven ethnic groups were analyzed for G gamma and hemoglobin F (Hb F) values of heterozygotes and for the presence of polymorphic XmnI restriction sites 5' to the gamma genes.
(5) A unique triplication of 108 bp, including the evolutionary conserved sequence CSB-3, was found.
(6) The method is sensitive to as little as 10 picograms of 1,25-(OH)2D, and triplicate assays can be done on 5 milliliters of plasma.
(7) Each experiment was made in triplicate, the vaporizer being dried out between each.
(8) Over a period of sixty hours, no relevant influence on sperm motility in comparison to control media was noted on triplicate testing.
(9) Both sides of bilateral ureteral triplications in our case belonged to type B of Smith's classification.
(10) All patients with triplicated pouches and all except one with duplicated pouches were able to defaecate spontaneously, without needing to intubate the reservoir.
(11) The presence of the gamma-globin gene triplication was frequently observed in M. fuscata.
(12) One baby was heterozygous for a chromosome with two linked G gamma globin genes (-G gamma-G gamma-delta-beta), which has also been observed in Black newborns [Powers et al, Nucleic Acids Res 12:7023, 1984], while the two other babies were heterozygous for a chromosome with triplicated gamma globin genes, presumably of the -G gamma-A gamma G gamma-A gamma-delta-beta arrangement.
(13) This method allows assays of opsonic activity to be performed in triplicate on large numbers of sera with a relatively small number of phagocytes and should aid the investigation of the role of opsonisation in infectious disease.
(14) Ureteral triplication is a rare anomaly of the urinary tract.
(15) The optimal disk concentration and incubation time were determined by utilizing triplicate sets of quadrant plates prepared with supplemented brucella (Difco) blood agar and swabbed with a 24-h broth (BBL; 135 C thioglycolate) suspension of the test organism.
(16) Three bags each were stored at 4, 20, and 37 degrees C; three 20-mL samples were removed from each bag after 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28, and 42 days and analyzed in triplicate by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(17) The structure resulting from this triplication consisted of three large loops and three long connecting segments.
(18) Run-to-run assay CV was 6% for primidone and phenobarbital and 13% for phenytoin, based on the means of triplicate determinations of a sample with a mid-range concentration.
(19) All measurements were made in triplicate and averaged.
(20) The different cytogenetic mechanism given in these cases shows us that with independence of it, it exists a triplication of the half distal short arm of chromosome 9 which gives specificity to these phenotypic features.