# trilling
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

trilling
* present participle and gerund of trill

#### Noun

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.

### Etymology 2

Compare German Drilling.

#### Noun

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.

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

trilling
* triplet

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

From trillen +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrɪ.lɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tril‧ling
* Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

### Noun

trilling f (plural trillingen, diminutive trillinkje n)
* vibration, oscillation

#### Synonyms

* oscillatie

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From trinnling.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /triliŋɡ/

### Noun

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)

### References

* “trilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

trilling c
* a triplet

#### Declension
### References

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