doublet
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[edit] English
[edit] Noun
doublet (plural doublets)
- a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- (linguistics) one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or blanche and blank in English).
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii
[edit] Quotations
- jacket
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1 line 75
- Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,
[edit] Translations
article of men's clothing
pair of two similar or equal things
[edit] See also
| Coef | Noun | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | single | |
| 2 | double | doublet |
| 3 | triple | triplet |
| 4 | quadruple | quadruplet |
| 5 | quintuple | quintuplet |
| 6 | sextuple | sextuplet |
