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Quipu :: Quipu (n.) A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events..

Tripled :: Tripled (imp. & p. p.) of Tripl.

Tern :: Tern (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.

Tiara :: Tiara (n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity..

Time :: Time (n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time..

Triplasian :: Triplasian (a.) Three-fold; triple; treble.

Turn :: Turn (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /..

Saltarello :: Saltarello (n.) A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella..

Courant :: Courant (p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto..

Grouper :: Grouper (n.) The tripletail (Lobotes).

Tercet :: Tercet (n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.

Triple :: Triple (a.) One of three; third.

Tarantella :: Tarantella (n.) A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia..

Thribble :: Thribble (a.) Triple; treble; threefold.

Tridiapason :: Tridiapason (n.) A triple octave, or twenty-second..

Triplicate :: Triplicate (v. t.) Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.

Sextolet :: Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

Triplet :: Triplet (n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

Trivium :: Trivium (n.) The three liberal arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence..

O :: O () Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure..

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