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Triplex   Listen
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Triplex  adj.  (Mach.) Having three principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.






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"Triplex" Quotes from Famous Books



... Triplex complications. All such are costly, perishable, easily clogged, inaccessible. Mill Gearing, Shafting, and ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... triplex.] De Aethiopia intratur in Indiam, mediam, nam triplex est videlicet infima, quae in quibusdam suis partibus est nimis frigida ad inhabitandum: Media quae satis temperata est, et superior, quae nimis calida. In India infima propter continuum et graue frigus ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt

... Wind-screen, "that's Discipline, that is. Through my little Triplex window I see most things, and don't I just know that poor discipline always results in poor work in the air, and don't you ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... the moment to exorcise. The legal gentleman, though a "writer" himself, was not at all convinced about the phenomena, as was perhaps natural, seeing the exceedingly bad company to which it professed to relegate him. As for me, my scepticism was to me robur et aes triplex. I disposed of the snake, put out the gas; and down we three sat, amid profound darkness, like three male witches in "Macbeth," having previously locked the door to prevent any one disturbing ...
— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... tertio, is a good play, and the olde saying is, the third payes for all: the triplex sir, is a good tripping measure, or the belles of S[aint]. Bennet sir, may put you in minde, one, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... by an electric pump. Electric motors are easy and convenient to run, very clean, but so far not very economical. Electric pumps may be arranged so as to start and stop entirely automatically. Water may be pumped, where electricity forms the power, either by triplex plunger pumps or by rotary, ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various



Words linked to "Triplex" :   treble, multiple



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