tripling
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- noun
- /ˈtraɪplɪŋ/
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triplicación
- For example, the eastern Washington portion of the lower Snake River watershed experienced a tripling of wheat per acre yields from 1910 to 1987.
- doubling and tripling
For many of us this can lead to a doubling or even a tripling of the ALT level.
- For many of us this can lead to a doubling or even a tripling of the ALT level.
Examples
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Some leaders of disability services offices say that they have seen a doubling or tripling of students with learning conditions in recent years.
Academic text (2016) -
China performed best, a tripling of food production per person over the same period.
Academic text (2003) -
A tripling of your speed requires nine times as much energy.
Academic text (1998) -
Should the American people be concerned about that tripling of the Adjusted Monetary Base?
Blog text (34) -
Rich people can afford a tripling in electricity costs, or their own wind turbine and solar house.
Blog text (32) -
After a tripling of withdrawals between 1944 and 1994, river flows dropped to ecologically harmful levels.
Academic text (2008) -
I’d love to see the Republicans discuss the tripling of out-of-pocket health care costs to Americans since 2000.
Blog text (2) -
Probably the most significant increase between 1910 and 1920 had been a tripling of the owners or managers of small businesses, so that they now constituted 7.4 percent of employed black men.
Academic text (1998) -
As Lester Brown outlined in the March/April Humanist ("Emerging Water Shortages"), the tripling of demand coupled with the effects of climate change accounts for the deficit.
Academic text (2008) -
The tripling of their profits last year surprised everyone in the company.
Synonyms
Increasing something to three times its original amount
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Etymology
The word tripling comes from triple, which contains the part tri- meaning 'three', the same part you see in triangle and tricycle. So tripling means making something three times as much.