2.three turns of your body in a sport such as ice skating or gymnastics 〔滑冰、体操中的〕转体三周;空翻三周
Examples from the Corpus
triple• It was ruled an error but very easily could have been a triple.• In an early version, at the beginning of each paragraph the relevant node-link-node triple was printed.• In the triples, the Prestwick side saw a great fightback just fail to take them to the final.
From Longman Business Dictionary
tripletrip·le1 /ˈtrɪpəl/adjectiveadj [only before a noun]
having three parts or members
Music sales saw triple-digit growth in the last financial year.
a triple alliance of the government, state industries and foreign firms
tripletriple2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]
to become three times as much or as many, or to make something do thisSYN TREBLE
Fourth quarter profits have tripled.
The newspaper tripled its circulation in less than a year.
➡ see also trebleADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤more than三倍多▸➤almost, nearly幾乎/將近三倍➤roughly大約三倍PREPOSITION➤in三倍於⋯◇Some homes have almost tripled in value.有些房子的價格幾乎上漲了兩倍。➤to增加兩倍並達到◇The figure has more than tripled to 67%.這個數字已增加兩倍多,達到 67%。