doublet
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French doublet, from double + -et.
Noun[edit]
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 yard and garden 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
- A word ladder puzzle.
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- 1855, Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope
- The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye […]
- 1855, Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
- to throw doublets
- (uncountable) A game somewhat like backgammon.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Quotations[edit]
- jacket
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1 line 75
- Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,
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1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
- He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
Translations[edit]
article of men's clothing
pair of two similar or equal things
pair of cognates in a language
See also[edit]
| Coefficient | Noun | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | single | singlet |
| 2 | double | doublet twin |
| 3 | triple | triplet |
| 4 | quadruple | quadruplet |
| 5 | quintuple pentuple |
quintuplet pentuplet |
| 6 | sextuple hextuple |
sextuplet hextuplet |
| 7 | septuple heptuple |
septuplet heptuplet |
| 8 | octuple | octuplet |
| 9 | nonuple | nonuplet |
| 10 | decuple | decuplet |
| 11 | undecuple hendecuple |
undecuplet hendecuplet |
| 12 | duodecuple | duodecuplet |
| 13 | tredecuple | tredecuplet |
| 100 | centuple | centuplet |
| many | multiple | multiplet |