triplet

Example Sentences

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In many optical systems this triplet state is considered "dark," meaning that its energy is often lost instead of converted into useful light.

From Science Daily

If a parent, or parents, have one child, and the next are twins or triplets, then a claim can be made for all these children.

From BBC

The next best thing to having triplets on a high school football team is having three brothers.

From Los Angeles Times

"The key to the quenching mechanism lies in how quickly and efficiently the triplet states can be deactivated," said Alessandro Agostini, researcher at the University of Padua, Italy and co-lead author of the study.

From Science Daily

But there’s one in particular … it’s one where Lucero, a big pop star in Mexico, plays three versions of herself, so she’s a triplet.

From Los Angeles Times