Triple Explained

Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a "treble":

Sports

• Triple (baseball), a three-base hit
• A basketball three-point field goal
• A figure skating jump with three rotations
• In bowling terms, three strikes in a row
• In cycling, a crankset with three chainrings

Places

• Triple Islands, an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada
• Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Triple Falls (disambiguation), four waterfalls in the United States & Canada
• Triple Glaciers, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross
• Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Transportation

• Kawasaki triple, a Japanese motorcycle produced between 1969 and 1980
• Triumph Triple, a motorcycle engine from Triumph Motorcycles Ltd
• A straight-three engine
• A semi-truck with three trailers

Science and technology

• Triple (mathematics) (3-tuple), a list or sequence with three elements
• Triple (category theory), a construction in algebraic topology, now usually called a monad
• Semantic triple, the atomic data entity in the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Religion

• Triple deity, a deity who appears in three forms
  • Triple goddess (Neopaganism), a divine female figure revered in Neopagan traditions

Other uses

• Triple (novel), by Ken Follett
• Triples (web series), a 2020 Indian web series
• Triples (cereal), a breakfast cereal made by General Mills in the 1990s
• A method of change ringing of bells
• TripleS (group), South Korean girl group

See also

• Triple point, in thermodynamics, the temperature and pressure at which three states of matter can co-exist
• Triple jump, a track and field event
• Triple metre, a musical metre characterized by a primary division of three beats to the bar
• Triple H, American professional wrestler
• Comic triple
• Treble (disambiguation)
• Triplet (disambiguation)
• Tripel, a style of beer