doublet
IPA: dˈʌbɫɛt
noun
- 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.
- (uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
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Examples of "doublet" in Sentences
- There is no need for the doublet.
- The short waisted doublet is slashed across the back.
- It is worn on the breast and shoulder, over the doublet.
- In the left image doublet is vertical in the torus centre.
- The beca is worn on the breast and shoulder, over the doublet.
- It is the superposition of uniform flow, a doublet, and a vortex.
- 'Matthew', on the other hand, fits in with the flashy doublet set.
- John Dolland was the first person to patent the achromatic doublet.
- It was supported on a wire frame attached to the neck of the doublet behind.
- In mathematics, the unit doublet is the derivative of the Dirac delta function.