Word Finder - doublets

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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.

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A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.

Moreover, the account of the joint undertaking by Judah (under Jehoshaphat) and Israel against Syria at Ramoth-Gilead at the time of Ahab's death, and again (under Ahaziah) when Jehoram was wounded, shortly before the accession of Jehu, are historical doublets, and they can hardly be harmonized either with the known events of 854 and 842 or with the course of the intervening years.

In the same spectra the lines belonging to the two branches are also doublets.

It will also be noticed that the least refrangible of the doublets of the 1 Astrophys.

If we compare together the spectra of the alkali metals, we find that the doublets of the branch series separate more and more as the wave-length increases.

In these elements the doublets of the alkali series are therefore replaced by triplets.

Here undoubtedly we have a series of doublets; for xvii.-xix.

Doublets, &'c. - To remove the errors which the above lenses showed, particularly when very short focal lengths were in question, lens combinations were adopted.

In 1668 the Italian Divini employed several doublets, i.e.

The slash or cut in the outer surfaces of garments, which included doublets, exposed the contrasting color of the linings beneath.

It has a slightly flat hum and a strong, very flat prime and has large doublets on all its important partials.

Elizabethan doublets - a comment dating back to 1583!

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.

The doublets could be satin, silk, fur, or velvet, or simply "cloth of the realm" (i.e., wool).

While some doublets were laced, most were buttoned, and the top few buttons left undone so that the white of the shirt could be pulled out.

Doublets were made of thicker wool or rough-sewn leather hides, designed to be tough enough to last for a long time.

Men will wear doublets and slops made of good cotton, which was an expensive fabric in that era, and women will wear heavy cotton skirts, embroidered bodices and big straw hats.

Flowing, brocaded gowns with proper headdresses look very elegant on the ladies while men will look especially dashing in doublets and hose.

Thus the cardinal number one is the class of unit classes, the cardinal number two is the class of doublets, and so on.

A distribution of sources and doublets over a moving surface will enable an expression to be obtained for the velocity function of a body moving in the presence of a fixed sphere, or inside it.

The method of electrical images will enable the stream function, )' to be inferred from a distribution of doublets, finite in number when the surface is composed of two spheres intersecting at an angle 7r/m, where m is an integer (R.

Wellhausen regards 1-6 and 7-14 as doublets, and differentiates two actions in the original account which are here confused.

In fact the lines of each branch are also doublets, with common difference of frequency.