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Another word for doublet

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Noun

  1. Two items of the same kind together

      1. A pair of draft animals, such as oxen, joined by a yoke.
      2. A frame fitting over the shoulders for carrying pails, etc., one on either end
      3. (Elec.) A piece of magnetic material, without windings, that permanently connects two or more magnet cores
      1. The players
      2. A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
      1. The second in a set or sequence.
      2. The cardinal number between one and three; 2; II
      3. Something numbered two or having two units, as a playing card, domino, face of a die, etc.
      1. (Chemistry) An electron pair.
      2. (Chiefly Dial.) A set or series
      3. Two mated animals.
      1. A person, group, or thing able to cope with or oppose another as an equal in power, size, etc.
      2. Two or more persons or things that go together in appearance, size, or other quality
      3. A contest or game involving two or more contestants; specif., a series of usually three sets in tennis
      1. An unincorporated community in West Virginia
      2. A pair; couple
      3. The two performers of a duet, or any two musicians playing together
      1. A pair.
      2. A performance involving two voices or instruments
      1. (Literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
      2. (Rare) A couple; pair
      3. Two successive lines of poetry, esp. two of the same length that rhyme
      1. Two people united, as by betrothal or marriage.
      2. (Informal) A few; several:
      3. Two items of the same kind; a pair.
      1. Any of various devices for supporting a weak or malformed part of the body: often intended for permanent use in contrast to a splint or cast
      2. A cranklike handle with an adjustable aperture at one end for securing and turning a bit.
      3. (Music) A vertical line, usually accompanied by the symbol {, connecting two or more staffs.
    See also:

    same

    group

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Another word for doublet

Noun
      1. The second in a set or sequence.
      2. The cardinal number between one and three; 2; II
      3. Something numbered two or having two units, as a playing card, domino, face of a die, etc.
      1. (Informal) A few; several:
      2. Two people, esp. a man and woman, who are engaged, married, or joined as partners, as in a dance or game
      3. (Mech.) Two equal forces producing rotation by moving in parallel but opposite directions
      1. A counterpart or double
      2. An identical copy; a facsimile.
      3. One that corresponds exactly to another, especially an original.
    See also:

    pair

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Sentence Examples

  • tretis, or treitis, is a doublet of "treaty," which also meant a discourse or account.

  • In the spectra of the alkali metals each line of the trunk is a doublet, and we may speak of a twin trunk springing out of the same root.

  • Young, according to which the dark line observed in the centre of each component of the sodium doublet in a Bunsen burner is transparent to a radiation placed behind.

  • doublet lens.

  • Doublet, Notes sur les oeuvres litteraires de l'empereur Hadrien (Toulouse, 1893); J.

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