Definitions of triple

1. To increase threefold.

2. To treble.

3. To make threefold; treble.

4. hit a three- base hit, in baseball

5. To treble. See Treble. Triple- time, a species of time so called from the bars being divisible into three equal parts. Triple salt, a salt in which two bases are combined with one acid.

6. a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base

7. a quantity that is three times as great as another

8. hit a three- base hit

9. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.

10. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.

11. One of three; third.

12. To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.

13. Threefold; consisting of three joined; as, a triple knot, a triple tie, etc.; three times repeated; as, a triple knock.

14. Consisting of three united: three times repeated.

15. Three- fold, consisting of three united; treble.