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

Sports

Triple (baseball) In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice. A triple is sometimes called ...

, a three-base hit * A basketball

three-point field goal A three-point field goal (also 3-pointer, three, or trey) is a field goal in a basketball game made from beyond the three-point line, a designated arc surrounding the basket. A successful attempt is worth three points, in contrast to the two poi ...

* A figure skating jump with three rotations * In bowling terms, three strikes in a row * In cycling, a

crankset The crankset (in the US) or chainset (in the UK), is the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the rider's legs into rotational motion used to drive the chain or belt, which in turn drives the rear wheel ...

with three chainrings

Places

Triple Islands The uninhabited Triple Islands are an island group located in Bathurst Inlet, south of Victoria Island, west of the Kent Peninsula, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Breakwater Islands, Ch ...

, an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada * Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada * Triple Falls (disambiguation), four waterfalls in the United States & Canada *

Triple Glaciers Triple Glaciers are in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. The glaciers are disconnected from each other and occupy three separate cirques on the northwest face of Mount Moran and northeast of Thor Peak. The glaciers are unoffi ...

, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming *

Triple Crossing Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three Class I railroads cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. At the lowest (ground) level, the original ...

, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross *

Triple Bridge The Triple Bridge ( sl, Tromostovje, in older sources also ''Tromostje'') is a group of three bridges across the Ljubljanica River. It connects Ljubljana's historical medieval town on one bank and the modern city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slov ...

, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Transportation

Kawasaki triple The Kawasaki triples were a range of ' motorcycles made by Kawasaki from 1968 to 1980. The engines were air-cooled, three-cylinder, piston-controlled inlet port two-strokes with two exhaust pipes exiting on the right side of the bike, and one ...

, a Japanese motorcycle produced between 1969 and 1980 *

Triumph Triple The Triumph Triples are a family of modern DOHC inline three-cylinder motorcycle engines made from 1990 onwards by the Triumph Motorcycle Company at their Hinckley, Leicestershire factory. The inspiration for the later triples was the pushr ...

, a motorcycle engine from Triumph Motorcycles Ltd * A

straight-three engine A straight-three engine (also called an inline-triple or inline-three) is a three-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft. Less common than straight-four engines, straight-three engines have nonethe ...

* A semi-truck with three trailers

Science and technology

* Triple (mathematics) (3-tuple), a list or sequence with three elements *

Triple (category theory) In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad (also triple, triad, standard construction and fundamental construction) is a monoid in the category of endofunctors. An endofunctor is a functor mapping a category to itself, and a monad is a ...

, a construction in algebraic topology, now usually called a monad *

Semantic triple A semantic triple, or RDF triple or simply triple, is the atomic data entity in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. As its name indicates, a triple is a set of three entities that codifies a statement about semantic data in the f ...

, 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) Triples was an American breakfast cereal produced by General Mills in the 1990s that was similar to Rice Krispies Rice Krispies (known as Rice Bubbles in Australia and New Zealand) is a breakfast cereal, marketed by Kellogg's in 1927 and re ...

, a breakfast cereal made by General Mills in the 1990s * A method of

change ringing Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memor ...

of bells *

TripleS (group) TripleS (stylized as tripleS; /ˈtɹɪpəl:ɛs/; ; ja, トリプルS, Toripuru S) is a South Korean girl group formed by MODHAUS. The group was introduced to the public through a pre-debut project that began in May 2022, where each of the 24 me ...