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triple

1 adjective predeterminer
     
trip‧le1 [only before noun]
1 having three parts or involving three groups, people, events etc [↪ double]:
a triple murder investigation
a triple bill of horror movies
the triple world champion
a triple bypass heart operation
2 three times more than a particular number:
The rail system has triple the average number of accidents.
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