triplicating

Variant of triplicate

adjective

  1. threefold
  2. designating the third of identical copies

Origin: ME < L triplicatus, pp. of triplicare, to treble < triplex: see triplex

noun

any of three identical copies or things

transitive verb triplicated, triplicating

to make three identical copies of

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