Triptych vs Trilogy - What's the difference?
triptych | trilogy |
(arts) A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets]] connected by [[hinge, hinges.
(philately) A set of three se-tenant postage stamps that form a composite picture.
A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
As nouns the difference between triptych and trilogy
is that triptych is a picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges while trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.triptych
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(wikipedia triptych)Alternative forms
* triptichNoun
(en noun)Hypernyms
* (arts) polyptychtrilogy
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(wikipedia trilogy)Noun
(trilogies)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.