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📄 One of three copies 🖨️ To make three copies
to triplicate

to triplicate

1 7.2
To make three copies of something
  • verb
  • /ˈtrɪp.lɪ.kɪt/
translation icon : triplicar
  • All qPCR reactions were performed in duplicate or triplicate on a CFX96 Touch system (Bio-Rad) or ViiA7 Real-Time PCR instrument (ThermoFisher Scientific).
  • triplicate prescriptions

Examples

  • The office requires you to triplicate your reports for the records to avoid any mistakes.

  • But I sit behind glass lenses, filling up notebooks and triplicate forms, trying to capture the wolves within the pages of my journal.

    Never Cry Wolf (1983)

  • - NO, BECAUSE BY THE TIME IT TAKES THE POLICE TO GET OUT TO THAT GUY'S CAMP AND CONFIRM OUR STORY, FILE FORMS IN TRIPLICATE, DUMA'S GONNA BECOME A WALL HANGING JUST LIKE HER MOTHER.

    Cheetah (1989)

  • "Rod, those microzooids grew alright—slowly, but they’re growing, even "triplicating" now and then.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • To ensure accuracy, please triplicate all the important documents before submitting them.

  • For this project, we need to triplicate the forms so that each team member has a copy.

How Many

to multiply
75 3.2
to triplicate
1 7.2
to duplicate
84 3.5

Surface Forms

triplicate infinitive
triplicated past
triplicated past participle
triplicating present participle
triplicates third person singular

Morphology

triplicate = triplicate (semi-transparent) = tri + plic + ate

The verb is a straightforward conversion from the adjective 'triplicate', but the base word itself is a learned and relatively uncommon form.

Etymology

Triplicate comes from the Latin parts tri- 'three' and plicare 'to fold'. That is why to triplicate something is to make three copies of it, just like to duplicate is to make two copies.