triple

1. 1.

   increase threefold

   “Triple your income!”

   Synonymstreble

   Broadermultiply
2. 2.

   hit a three-base hit

   Broaderhit

   baseball

1. 1.

   having three units or components or elements

   “a ternary operation”

   “a treble row of red beads”

   “overcrowding made triple sessions necessary”

   “triple time has three beats per measure”

   “triplex windows”

   Synonymsternarytrebletriplex

   Similarmultiple
2. 2.

   three times as great or many

   “a claim for treble (or triple) damages”

   “a threefold increase”

   Synonymstreblethreefoldthree-fold

   Similarmultiple

Other forms of triple

plural

triples·

past tense

tripled·

present participle

tripling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triple

What does triple mean?

triple means "a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in triple?

triple has 2 syllables: tri-ple. The stress falls on "tri". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɪpəl/.

What is another word for triple?

Close synonyms include three-base hit, three-bagger, trio, triad, triplet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is triple a common word?

triple is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.