trilling

trilling

1. present participle of trill

trilling (plural trillings)

1. The production of a trill sound.
   • 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.
   • 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.

2. (obsolete) One of three children born at the same birth; a triplet.

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From trillen +‎ -ing

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• Hyphenation: tril‧ling

trilling f (plural trillingen, diminutive trillinkje n)

1. vibration, oscillation

• oscillatie

From trinnling.

• IPA^(key): /triliŋɡ/ (example of pronunciation)

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.