doublet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌblət/
Forms: form: doublets
form: doubtlet
Etymology: From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.
Senses: glosses: A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
qualifier: lapidary
glosses: An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
glosses: A word ladder puzzle.
examples: text: The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye […]
ref: 1855, Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: to throw doublets
glosses: Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
glosses: A game somewhat like backgammon.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Dipole antenna.
examples: text: I must comfort the weaker vessel, as
doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], lines 726-27:
text: Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent, as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd:
[…]
These sparks with awkward vanity display
What the fine gentleman wore yesterday;
And but so mimic ancient wits at best,
As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, lines 316-19, 327-30:
glosses: A man’s waistcoat.
Synonyms: sense: pair of two similar things
word: duet
word: dyad
word: duo
Derived terms: bidoublet
doubletness
interdoublet
isodoublet
microdoublet
Montrose doublet
Wollaston doublet
Wollaston's doublet
Related terms: homolog
pair
twin
twinling
single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet