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Triple crown   /trˈɪpəl kraʊn/   Listen
adjective
Triple  adj.  
1.
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. "By thy triple shape as thou art seen."
2.
Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
3.
One of three; third. (Obs.)
Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2.
Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively.
Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented.
Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3.
Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt.
Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity.
Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts.
Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.





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"Triple crown" Quotes from Famous Books



... scarce known beyond his cell, Front Rome's far-reaching bolts, and scorn her frown? Brave Luther answered YES; that thunder's swell Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown. 20 ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell
... offered," said the Archbishop, "an alternative which I am not able to discuss. Roman Catholicism and Unitarianism in alternate doses is the price you ask us to pay. The Church of Jingalo will accept neither the Triple Crown nor an untriune Divinity as its guide." He drew himself to his full height. ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... Let me speak out, my love. Two of my ancestors wore the triple crown. The blood of the Fiescos flows not pure unless beneath the purple. Shall your husband only reflect a borrowed splendor? (In a more energetic manner.) What! shall he owe his rank alone to capricious chance, which, from the ashes of ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... Archbishop, "an alternative which I am not able to discuss. Roman Catholicism and Unitarianism in alternate doses is the price you ask us to pay. The Church of Jingalo will accept neither the Triple Crown nor an untriune Divinity as its guide." He drew himself to his full height. "That, ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... triple crown of Tezcuco upon his head and taking in his hand the golden arrow of judgment, the 'tzin said to his son: "Ixtlil-o-chitl, cacique of Tezcuco, I charge you in the presence of the arrow and the skull to say, if you can, why sentence of death should not ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks


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