Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʌblət/
doublet (plural doublets)
- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
(linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow 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 ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (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.
- 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.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (pair of two similar things) duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo
- French: doublet
- German: Dublette, Scheideform
- Italian: allotropo, doppietto
- Russian: дубле́т
- Spanish: doblete
doublet (plural doublets)
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1, line 75
- Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1, line 75
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