Definition of Doublings

1. Noun. (plural of doubling) ¹

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Definition of Doublings

1. doubling [n] - See also: doubling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doublings

doubletracks
doubletree
doubletrees
doublets
doubletted
doublewide
doublewides
doubleword
doublewords
doubleyou
doubleyous
doubling
doubling down
doubling time
doubling up
doublings (current term)
doubloon
doubloonie
doubloonies
doubloons
doublure
doublures
doubly
doubly armed suture
doubly even
doubly heterozygous
doubly labeled water
doubly magic
doubly transitive verb
doubly transitive verb form

Literary usage of Doublings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"... and doublings, holding them long together, to make the hounds give over the chace. But if a hart break out into a champain country, and in the heat of ..."

2. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"... and all doublings therefore must come from the head only ; and the proper closeness of the march on all occasions, is a point of the highest consequence ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... synchronism of events in the two ventricles, or (2) to- the formation of entirely new sounds. i. Splittings and doublings of the Heart Sounds (| Rhythm) ..."

4. The Mechanical Principia: Containing All the Various Calculations on Water by Charles Elbredge Leonard (1848)
"The following table shows the range of drafts and doublings, which are preferred by different manufacturers. EXAMPLE. ..."

5. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock (1840)
"... upon which all depends. doublings, and unsatisfied desires of knowledge and perfection. But being all souls are not alike, it is certain they depend ..."

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