| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun doublet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (doublet) | 1. A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance.[Wordnet]. | |
| Adverb Base (doubletly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective doublet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DOUBLETS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1466. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DOUBLETS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A game on dice within tables.. | 2: [Noun] The same number on both dice.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [Noun] Plural form of doublet. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: doublet
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Belly doublet | A doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Doublet (clothing) | A doublet is a man's snug-fitting buttoned jacket that was worn in Western Europe from Middle Ages through the mid-17th century. Originally it was a mere stitched and quilted lining ("doubling"), worn under a hauberk or cuirass to prevent bruising and chafing. Then, like many other originally practical items in the history of men's wear, from the late 15th century onward it became elaborated enough to be seen on its own. (references) | ||
| Doublet (lapidary) | A doublet is a fake gem composed in two sections, such as a garnet overlaying green glass, with the join hidden by the mount, giving the effect of a fine emerald. Similarly a layer of opal may be glued to a jet foil, giving the impression of a rare black opal. (references) | ||
| Doublet (lens) | A doublet is a type of lens, made up of two stacked layers with different refractive indices. This type of lens corrects for focusing problems that result from simple rigid lenses. (references) | ||
| Doublet (linguistics) | A doublet is one of two or more words in a language that share a common root word, but may have traveled into a language through different routes. For that reason, doublets may be nearly synonymous, but are not necessarily interchangeable. For example English pyre and fire are doublets. Subtle differences in the resulting modern words contribute to the richness of the English language, as indicated by the doublets frail and fragile (which share the Latin root, fragilis): one might refer to a fragile tea cup and a frail old woman, but a frail tea cup and fragile old woman are subtly different and possibly confusing descriptions. (references) | ||
| Electric doublet | A dipole with equal and opposite electric charges. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: doublet
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dog in a doublet | Slang in 1811 | DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar, having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies, Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Doublet byte | Computing | An ordered set of two binary digits. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Doublet Device / Doublet Plasma | Physics | Tokamak-type devices where the plasma cross-section is kidney-shaped, with a deep indentation in the middle so that the plasma has two major rings of current (on top and bottom). (references) | |
| Doublet III | Physics | See DIII-D. (references) | |
| Doublet pearl | Industry | Resulting from man's assemblage of an upper portion of pearl and one lower portion of the same or another substance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Garnet doublet | Mining | A. A term applied to the most common doublet, that with a very thin top of red garnet, regardless of the color of the doublet.b. Any doublet of dark red color regardless of whether any portion of it is garnet, more correctly called a garnet-top doublet.c. A composite stone made with a garnet top on a glass base. Also called garnet-top doublet, garnet-topped doublet. (references) | |
| Radiating doublet | Post & Telecom | A hypothetical radiator consisting of a pair of equal and opposite varying electrical charges connected by a conductor, separated by a distance which, for the purpose of calculation, may be assumed to be vanishingly small while still maintaining the moment of the dipole finite. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: doublet | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Doublet | 58 | Arming doublet | 4 | |
| Doublet (clothing) | 30 | Doublet | 58 | |
| Doublet (linguistics) | 9 | Doublet (clothing) | 30 | |
| Doublet Peak | 6 | Doublet (lapidary) | 3 | |
| Arming doublet | 4 | Doublet (lens) | 3 | |
| Doublet (physics) | 4 | Doublet (linguistics) | 9 | |
| Doublet (lens) | 3 | Doublet (physics) | 4 | |
| Doublet (lapidary) | 3 | Doublet Peak | 6 | |
| Pake doublet | 2 | Pake doublet | 2 | |
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