doublet

  1. Noun.  a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
  2. Noun.  a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes (e.g., ''toucher'' and ''toquer'' in French or ''blanche'' and ''blank'' in English).
  4. Noun.  (context, literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  5. Noun.  (context, lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  6. Noun.  (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
  7. Noun.  (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
  8. Noun.  (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
  9. Noun.  (botany) A very small flowering plant, ''Dimeresia howellii''.

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