(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.
Tuple
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(2) A matching matrix species which k-tuples match each other.
(3) In our master-worker (MW) parallel implementation, a master process creates several worker processes, extracts a test sequence and multiple library sequences from a database and stores them in tuple space.
(4) An algorithm is described for generation of the long sequence written in a four letter alphabet from the constituent k-tuple words in the minimal number of separate, randomly defined fragments of the starting sequence.
(5) The present study proposes an algorithm that allows to overcome the computational difficulties occurring in the course of the method during reconstruction of the DNA sequence by its l-tuple composition.
(6) It is shown also that the biochemical problems connected with the loss of information about the l-tuple DNA composition during hybridization are not crucial and can be overcome by finding the maximal flow of minimal cost in the special graph.
(7) We then studied the distribution of oligonucleotides (or k-tuples) of each length in a subset of 129 complete mammalian genes spanning 0.607 Mb.
(8) It is shown that the efficiency of the statistical l-tuple filtration upon DNA database search is associated with a potential extension of the original four-letter alphabet and grows exponentially with increasing l. The formula that allows one to estimate the filtration parameters is presented.
(9) The concept of the algorithm enables operations with the k-tuple sets containing false positive and false negative k-tuples.
(10) In addition, one can match k-tuples or words instead of matching individual residues in order to speed the search.
(11) The frequency occurrences of K-tuple (overlapping sequences of defined length, K) were computed from the known human genome sequences.
(12) Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument [PBI; Parker, G. Tupling, H. & Brown, L.B.
(13) Each worker reads the test sequence and then repeatedly extracts library strings from tuple space, performs pairwise sequence comparison using a local comparison algorithm to generate a similarity score, and returns the similarity scores to tuple space.
(14) Average CLW distances for a variety of common word structures were more or less parallel to MDD distances for appropriately long t-tuples.
(15) relatively evenly distributed over a genome) versus non-stationary l-tuples has been introduced previously.
(16) Some of the rare 5-tuples identified by this strategy belonged to a portion of the nine base-pair binding site in promoters, which is also known as the octamer motif.
(17) Very few rare 5-tuples were identified; in addition, three oligonucleotides, reverse complements of rare 5-tuples, were found to have a frequency ranging between 0.582 and 0.671.
(18) We report that, through the use of alternative encodings of the DNA sequence in the complex plane, the number of FFTs performed can be traded off against (i) signal-to-noise ratio, and (ii) a certain degree of filtering for local similarity via k-tuple correlation.
(19) We defined as rare those 5-tuples having an observed frequency less than 50% of that expected by chance on the basis of base composition, and which had a reduction in frequency not attributable to CpG suppression or to coding constraints.
(20) Nucleotide or amino-acid sequences are interpreted as successions of words of length k (k-tuples) the frequencies of which are highly variable in different statistical populations of genes or proteins.