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In mathematics, a triple is an n-tuple with n being 3. A triple is a sequence of three elements. It is not a set of three elements, as the ordering of the elements matters, and an element can be present more than once in the same triple. Derived from this abstract meaning it is used in several other contexts. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of figures and numbers. Mathematical knowledge is constantly growing, through research and application, but mathematics itself is not usually considered a natural science. ... In mathematics, a tuple is a finite sequence (also known as an ordered list) of objects, each of a specified type. ...

Triples in humor

A triple is a joke consisting of three statements (also known as comedy threes). The first two statements are similar, usually "straight lines", and establish a pattern which the third statement does not follow. A joke is a short story or series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of causing laughter or being found humorous by either listener/reader or performer/writer. ...

For example:

John was a quiet gentleman who liked to:

1. work in the garden
2. read literary works
3. devour kittens

Obviously, the third violent activity does not follow the first two benign ones. This may be found humorous.

Other examples include lists, of names for example, where the third is in contrast with the previous two.

"It's one thing to see death coming at the hands of your own creation. Oedipus and his father. Baron Frankenstein and his monster. William Henry Gates and Windows '09." -- David Brin, Kiln People

Here is another typical example, by Woody Allen, in Love and Death: Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. ... Love and Death is a 1975 comedy by Woody Allen. ...

"If only I could see a miracle, like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my Uncle Sasha pick up a check!"

There are endless variations. Good ones can have a joke within a joke, such as this exchange from All in the Family where the subject of cities with the same names has come up: This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Mike: "Portland, Oregon; Portland, Maine."

Gloria: "Springfield, Illinois; Springfield, Massachusetts."

Edith: "New York, New York!"

See also

• humour
• paraprosdokian

Look up humor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. ...

Triples in music

In music triple refers to triple meter and triplets. See also simple meter and compound meter. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... In music a tuplet is a note value whose relationship with the next larger note value is more or less than (not equal to) half as long as the next higher note value, usually indicated with a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) bracket with a number. ... In music, simple metre or simple time is a time signature or meter in which each beat (or rather, portion, 1/2 or 1/3 of a measure) is divided into two parts, as opposed to three which is compound meter. ... In music, compound metre or compound time is a time signature or meter in which each beat (or rather, portion, 1/2 or 1/3 of a measure) is divided into three parts, as opposed to two which is simple meter. ...

Triples in RDF

In RDF a triple is a subject-predicate-object expression. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats. ...

Triples in sport

• A hat-trick is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. For example in soccer scoring three goals in one game.
• In athletics, triple jump is kind of a three-steps-long jump.
• In baseball, a triple is a three-base hit.
• In bowling, three strikes in a row, also known as a turkey.
• In figure skating, a triple jump is a jump with three revolutions.
• In Professional Wrestling, Paul Levesque is known as Triple H.