(a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
(a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
(a.) One of three; third.
(a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Example Sentences:
(1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(2) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
(5) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(6) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(7) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(8) An analysis of the triple helical stabilities of these cleavage site regions as reflected by their imino acid contents fails to yield a correlation between reactivity and triple helical stability.
(9) A total of 50 patients received a cadaveric renal transplant followed by immunosuppression with triple therapy.
(10) From the area between the papillae sensory endings appearing in sections to be either single, double or triple are described.
(11) Blood flows to contralateral cerebral hemispheric structures were relatively unchanged from prehypoxic values, whereas flows to the brainstem and cerebellum nearly doubled and tripled, respectively.
(12) Four separate features could be distinguished in Fe-DNAase-1 digestions of human lymphoblast nuclei: a di-nucleosomal (2N) repeat, a mono-nucleosomal (1N) repeat, a component of "random" DNA, and triple splitting of major peaks.
(13) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(14) Twenty-two patients with radiologically localised pulmonary tuberculosis underwent one or more broncho-alveolar lavages: 10 patients had a single lavage in the disease area, 11 had two lavages (1 in a healthy zone and 1 in the affected zone) and 1 patient had a triple lavage.
(15) LU, a branch of the London mayor's Transport for London authority, claims that Aslef is seeking triple-time pay and an extra day off for members working on Boxing Day.
(16) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
(17) Total body water, extracellular body water, and plasma space were determined using the triple radiotracer technique.
(18) Incubation and heating of the polymers in 1 mM Mn2+ caused the spectral shift reported for the left-handed Z-DNA conformation in the alternating copolymer and the change reported for the triple helix in the homopolymer.
(19) His client-base has tripled since January, and now includes more than half of Shanghai and Beijing's international schools.
(20) A preparation in a special triple bath was drawn through two rubber membranes dividing the strip into three segments.
Triply
Definition:
(adv.) In a triple manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further, the time required for the regeneration of the triply substituted aequorin was substantially increased compared to the time required for the regeneration of the wild-type aequorin.
(2) Hybrids were formed by polyethylene glycol-mediated fusion between 3T6-VrB2, or its parent 3T6, and 2TG0-13, a triply marked derivative of mouse 3T3 cells.
(3) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(4) Seven single-site mutations at different positions of this 14-base pair region largely eliminated binding, and several others increased binding up to 2-fold when compared to the nonmutant, triply methylated sequence.
(5) This involved the PEG-induced fusion of protoplasts from cells which had been treated with chromosome-fragmenting agents (in this case cupferron and hydroxylamine) with protoplasts of triply auxotrophic cells.
(6) The recent discovery of the negligible contribution of the triply ligated species to the oxygenation process of human hemoglobin A0 (S.J.
(7) Triply unfair because I had to see a psychiatrist even though she was obviously the mad one.
(8) At least three major energetic states are apparently assumed by hemoglobin tetramers, with respect to the alpha1beta2 contact region, corresponding to (a) unliganded, (b) singly liganded, (c) triply and quadruply liganded species.
(9) Instead, Rh(phen)2phi3+ appears to target regions which are structured so that the major groove is open and accessible for stacking with the complex, as occurs where bases are triply bonded.
(10) However, mutation (all representing drastic changes) in any of the five triply conserved residues (Tyr326, Asn369, Phe370, Tyr450, and Pro451) caused a complete or partial abrogation of sigma 1 cell binding function, whereas mutation in any of the other three residues (Ser325, Ser327, and Asp365) had no adverse effect.
(11) Almost 300 individual sperm from a donor triply heterozygous at D3S2, D3S11, and D3S12 were amplified by PCR using primers flanking the polymorphic site at each locus.
(12) A proportion of the plasma for the triply inactivated, plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine produced in the United States is obtained from homosexual men.
(13) Triply heterozygous F1 hybrids have been recovered, although at a low frequency.
(14) An allosteric model is presented that provides a simple explanation for the low population of triply ligated species, relative to the other species, in the oxygenation of human hemoglobin tetramers as found in high-concentration studies [Gill, S. J., Di Cera, E., Doyle, M. L., Bishop, G. A., & Robert, C. H. (1987) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
(15) Further characterization of these phosphopeptides revealed that p1 and p2 represent the triply and doubly phosphorylated forms, respectively, of the region within the tyrosine kinase domain containing tyrosines 1148, 1152, and 1153.
(16) Control, singly and triply vaccinated ewes were challenged with a virulent strain of chlamydia during their second pregnancy, 15 months after vaccination.
(17) In contrast, the apparent processivity of removing a triply mispaired terminus is much reduced.
(18) This type of experimental analysis makes no assumptions of optical linearity between the various heme groups and reveals that the triply ligated species is measurably significant for both human and bovine hemoglobin.
(19) They indicated electrostatic accumulation of the triply charged peptide on the surface of the membrane followed by hydrophobic interaction with the same parameters as for neutral membranes.
(20) The bar type had triply dilated subepithelial superficial veins and deep submucosal veins which eroded the epithelium, and the gastric varices were present in the latter type.