Definitions
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- noun computing The action of pushing the button on a
mouse three times in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from asingle-click ordouble-click . - verb computing To push the button on a
mouse three times in quicksuccession in order to perform different task that would be performed from asingle-click ordouble-click .
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Examples
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In Opera, triple-click selects the sentence, not paragraph, but quadruple-click selects the paragraph.
How To Master Text Highlighting With Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Most applications will also select an entire paragraph with a triple-click.
How To Master Text Highlighting With Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Similar to the above method, if you triple-click before dragging the mouse, only whole paragraphs will be highlighted.
How To Master Text Highlighting With Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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To select a word, double-click it; to select an entire paragraph, triple-click; to select a single line, click once to the left of the line; and to select the entire document, press Ctrl-A.
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Lots of folks found this innovation really irritating, because they are in the habit of selecting words, sentences or paragraphs with a double- or triple-click and are frustrated on the Times site.
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Lots of folks found this innovation really irritating, because they are in the habit of selecting words, sentences or paragraphs with a double- or triple-click and are frustrated on the Times site.
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Lots of folks found this innovation really irritating, because they are in the habit of selecting words, sentences or paragraphs with a double- or triple-click and are frustrated on the Times site.
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The Reveal extension has several user-determined options, including the size and number of thumbnails displayed at any given time if you select 8 on a page, you can still have 9 or 12 or 20 thumbnails; the page up/page down keys cycle through them, and navigation preferences such as how to cycle through thumbnails, what to do on triple-click, and so forth.
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While they were speaking on the phone, Sexton had clearly heard the distinctive triple-click of his Jourdain clock in the background.
Deception Point Dan Brown 2001
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While they were speaking on the phone, Sexton had clearly heard the distinctive triple-click of his Jourdain clock in the background.
Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001
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