triplets

• The music dissolves in triplets, the pianist is instructed to lavishly pedal, and Beethoven writes notes which float down and up in contrary motion, the hands like two mirroring waves, washing up against each other and retreating to the far ends of the keyboard, only to turn around and return (always, again, like tides).
• He was the same age as the triplets, and could be fun when he chose to be, because he had crazy naughty boy notions. —  The Dastard
• Mothers with multiple births in the study had twins or triplets, and no significant difference was found in postpartum depression rates between those groups. —  CNN.com
• She's the mother of triplets -- one of whom is disabled. —  Toronto Sun
• Vertical gray bars represent the individual rate of a single codon; the translation rate profile (red line) is averaged from the individual rates with a window of 19 triplets, and minima below the genome-wide threshold —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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