trilling

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

Etymology 1

Verb

trilling

1. present participle and gerund of trill

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

Compare German Drilling.

Noun

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.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian trinnling, from Old Norse þrennr (“triple”). Ultimately from the root of tre (“three”).

Noun

trilling

1. triplet

Declension

Declension of trilling

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trilling	trillingen	trillinger	trillingerne
genitive	trillings	trillingens	trillingers	trillingernes

Dutch

Etymology

From trillen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪ.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: tril‧ling
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

Noun

trilling f (plural trillingen, diminutive trillinkje n)

1. vibration, oscillation

Synonyms

• oscillatie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From trinnling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /triliŋɡ/

Noun

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)

References

• “trilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From earlier tri (“three”), from Old Swedish þrir.

Noun

trilling c

1. a triplet

Declension

Declension of trilling

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	trilling	trillings
	definite	trillingen	trillingens
plural	indefinite	trillingar	trillingars
	definite	trillingarna	trillingarnas

References

• trilling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trilling in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trilling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)