trilling

• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

trilling

1. present participle and gerund of trill

trilling (plural trillings)

1. 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.

Compare German Drilling.

trilling (plural trillings)

1. (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.

2. (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

1. triplet

From trillen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪ.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: tril‧ling
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

trilling f (plural trillingen, diminutive trillinkje n)

1. vibration, oscillation

• oscillatie

From trinnling.

• IPA^(key): /triliŋɡ/

trilling m (definite singular trillingen, indefinite plural trillingar, definite plural trillingane)

1. 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

1. a triplet

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