triple time

1. 1.

   musical time with three beats in each bar

   Broadermusical time

Questions about triple time

What does triple time mean?

triple time means "musical time with three beats in each bar".

Is triple time a common word?

triple time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.