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- Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
trilling
- present participle and gerund of trill
trilling (plural trillings)
- The production of a trill sound.
1906, Jennie Brooks, “ways of the Kentucky Cardinal”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 112, number 670, page 627:
It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way.
1910, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington:
During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer.
trilling (plural trillings)
- (crystallography) A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
1966, Geological Survey Professional Paper - Issues 509-510, page 55:
Diametrically opposed rays of these stellate groups are of the same optical orientation and the twins are, therefore, trillings ( fig. 29 ).
1974, Mineral Digest, volumes 6-8, page 148:
Chrysoberyl is orthorhombic in symmetry. Like many orthorhombic minerals, it readily forms an intergrowth with two other individual crystals to make trillings with six sides or, at least, V-shaped twins.
2013, Federico Olóriz, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods, page 235:
In the embryonic stage, pseudohexagonal trillings resemble those of the post-embryonic stage (Figure 2D,E), and are 1 to 3 μm in diameter.
- (obsolete, rare) One of three offspring born at the same birth; a triplet.
1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449:
Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.
1922, The Goat World, Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Goat Industry, page 67:
this breed is prominent for its remarkable fecundity and yield of milk; as a rule, this goat litters once a year and drops 2 kids; occasionally trillings and fourlings.
1926, Medicina fennica - Volumes 1-5, page 14:
About twins and trillings.
Borrowed from Norwegian trinnling, from Old Norse þrennr (“triple”). Ultimately from the root of tre (“three”).
trilling
trilling f (plural trillingen, diminutive trillinkje n)
From trinnling.
trilling m (definite singular trillingen, indefinite plural trillingar, definite plural trillingane)
- triplet (one of three siblings born at the same time of the same mother)
- “trilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From earlier tri (“three”), from Old Swedish þrir.
trilling c
- a triplet