couplet

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Noun

couplet (plural couplets)

1. (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
2. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

   5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in Downtown Los Angeles.

3. (taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.

Synonyms

• (streets) one-way pair

Translations

• French: couplet
• German: Couplet
• Portuguese: parelha
• Russian: купле́т

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