Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of trebling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
- noun Threefold plication; formation of triplicates; that which is triplicate or threefold: as, a triplication of peritoneum.
- noun In civil law, same as
surrejoinder in common law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together.
- noun (Civil Law) Same as
Surrejoinder .
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- noun The action or result of the verb to
triplicate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'There is no rationale for a country at that level of economic development to have not just duplication but triplication of those infrastructure projects.'
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'There is no rationale for a country at that level of economic development to have not just duplication but triplication of those infrastructure projects.'
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'There is no rationale for a country at that level of economic development to have not just duplication but triplication of those infrastructure projects.'
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'There is no rationale for a country at that level of economic development to have not just duplication but triplication of those infrastructure projects.'
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He said the Treasury Committee and Cabinet were concerned about duplication and triplication in the setting up of regional offices by bodies such as the Public Protector, Human Rights Commission and
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In other words, there is the preparation of all land for rice cultivation, improvement of productivity by hectare, conservation of water, and triplication of productivity per man.
Science, Technology Forum Opens in Havana Castro Addresses Forum 1995
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They pointed to a delay of at least two weeks in the finalisation of the first of 10 scheduled reports from each of the six theme committees; to the fact that some of these committees had not even finalised one report by this week; and to seemingly interminable procedural duplication and even triplication.
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Mr De Klerk should rather have announced measures to stamp out government corruption, and put on trial those responsible; measures to immediately eliminate apartheid duplication, triplication and multiplication of services; to put a stop to golden handshakes for civil servants implicated in murder and corruption; to radically reduce expenditure on the military; and to drastically reduce salaries of his cabinet, MPs and other apartheid fat cast.
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The Glassco Commission in its study of the Department reported that there was a great deal of duplication and triplication and that through reorganization considerable savings could be made.
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A more frequent change among the monopetalous orders is the duplication or triplication of the corolla, in consequence of which there appear to be a series of corollas enclosed one within the other, the lobes of which generally alternate with one another, but which sometimes are superposed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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