Word Finder - doublet

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A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.

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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).

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In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.

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(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.

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A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.

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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.

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A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.

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A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.

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A word ladder puzzle.

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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.

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Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

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to throw doublets

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A game somewhat like backgammon.

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Dipole antenna.

The player with the highest doublet plays first and turns proceed in a clockwise direction.

The potential clinical benefit of this new doublet in the treatment of transitional cell carcinoma warrants testing in future phase III studies.

John has a red hat and cape, a gray blue doublet with blue cuffs, red trousers and gray stockings.

However, a new mark ll version has been announced that uses a sharper coated doublet.

Sir John's colors, and a leathern doublet, weighing 11 pounds, worn by him, are still preserved.

How to Make Simple Medieval Costumes - patterns for tunic, hose, hood and fitted doublet.

My lord, I pray ye, put off your doublet.

The story of the conversion of Georgia by St Nino in the same age is so full of local colour, and coheres so closely with the story of Ripsime and Gaiana, that it seems over-sceptical to explain the latter away as a mere doublet of the legend of Prisca and Valeria.

His vengeance on the Amalekite who slew Saul - the account is a doublet of r Sam.

Doublet lenses are used to produce a higher quality image than singlet lenses of which they easily out perform, even in monochromatic light.

The A tubule of each doublet has attached dynein arms.

A doublet opal is actually a combination of an opal glued to another opal or some other material; triplet opals include a base which is usually dark, a precious opal center and a clear covering.

These types of opals have the least opal content even compared to doublets and are always priced significantly lower than the solid and doublet types.

If you buy a doublet opal, do enquire about the weight of the opal stone portion as separate from the weight of the other part of the jewelry.

Unscrupulous jewelers may pass off the total weight of the doublet as the weight of the stone and you will end up paying the opal's carat value for the total weight of the doublet, including the background stone or material.

Another brooch by Judith Ripka is the Sterling Gemstone Pin with Carnelian Doublet Enhancer.

A long-sleeved overshirt known as a "doublet", often made out of fine embroidered or woven cloth.

An optional "jerkin" could be worn over the doublet.

To be a nobleman, you need a good ruffled linen poet shirt, a velvet doublet, embroidered velvet slops (the baggy trousers that are usually cut to mid-thigh), good hose, boots and a jeweled hat.

We don't wear doublet and hose today, but we can still make jokes about people who wear anoraks or Armani.

And very much, Sir, the ruff and the slashed doublet become you!

A doublet is any class which possesses a member x such that the modified class formed by all the other members except x is a unit class.

He described the reflecting goniometer in 1809 and the camera lucida in 1812, provided microscopists with the "Wollaston doublet," and applied concavo-convex lenses to the purposes of the oculist.

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.

He was asked the meaning of the cross of St John which he wore on his doublet, and replied that it was the sign of a small benefice which he held from the pope, and would lose if he were not back by the 1st of January.

Each suit also includes two sword fighting lessons, a steel display stand, and a custom- fitted arming doublet undergarment of padded linen.

The motion of these cylinders across the line of centres is the equivalent of a line doublet along each axis.

Next that 6 is a doublet of 13 sqq.

Here n represents an integer which is 3 if the vibration is a simple doublet, but may have a higher integer value.