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  • 111trip|ham|mer — «TRIHP HAM uhr», noun, adjective. –n. a heavy iron or steel block raised by machinery, tripped by a cam or other mechanism, and allowed to drop, used in foundries and machine shops. –adj. of or like a triphammer, especially with regard to power… …

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  • 112trip|li|ca|tion — «TRIHP luh KAY shuhn», noun. 1. the act or process of triplicating. 2. the fact of being triplicated. 3. something triplicated. 4. Linguistics. a) the formation of a word by triple repetition of an element. b) a word thus formed …

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  • 113trip|lite — «TRIHP lyt», noun. a phosphate of iron and manganese containing fluorine, of a brown or blackish color. ╂[< German Triplit < Greek triploûs threefold + German it ite1 (because of its cleavage in three directions)] …

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  • 114trip|lo|blas|tic — «TRIHP luh BLAS tihk», adjective. having three germ layers, the ectoderm, the endoderm, and the mesoderm, as the embryos of vertebrates do. ╂[< Greek triplóos triple + blastós germ, sprout] …

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  • 115trip|loi|dy — «trihp LOY dee», noun. Biology. the state of having three times the number of chromosomes characteristic of germ cells of the species …

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  • 116trip|loid — «TRIHP loyd», adjective, noun. Biology. –adj. having three times the number of chromosomes characteristic of germ cells of the species. –n. a triploid organism. ╂[< New Latin triploides < Greek triplóos triple] …

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  • 117trip|o|dal — «TRIHP uh duhl», adjective. three footed; three legged …

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  • 118trip|o|dy — «TRIHP uh dee», noun, plural dies. Prosody. a group or verse of three feet. ╂[< Greek tripodíā < trípous, podos three footed; see etym. under tri|pod (Cf. ↑tripod)] …

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  • 119trip|o|lite — «TRIHP uh lyt», noun. tripoli that is made up of the fossil remains of diatoms …

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  • 120trip|o|li — «TRIHP uh lee», noun. any one of several light, soft earths or rocks, especially infusorial earth and rottenstone, used in polishing, etc. ╂[< French tripoli < Tripoli, a city in Africa, where it was originally found] …

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