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Definition of Doublet

1. Noun. A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance.

Definition of Doublet

1. n. Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

Definition of Doublet

1. Noun. a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s. ¹

2. Noun. a pair of two similar or equal things; couple. ¹

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). ¹

4. Noun. (context: literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. ¹

5. Noun. (context: lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them. ¹

6. Noun. (printing US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake. ¹

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. ¹

8. Noun. (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes ¹

9. Noun. (botany) A very small flowering plant, ''Dimeresia howellii'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doublet

1. a close-fitting jacket [n -S]

Medical Definition of Doublet

1. Two simple lens elements cemented together, for the purpose of giving spherical and chromatic corrections. An achromatic doublet may be composed of a positive crown-glass lens and a negative flint-glass lens. The errors of one element are made to compensate those of the other element. (05 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doublet

Literary usage of Doublet

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The use of the doublet for these purposes was advocated twenty- five years ago by Pickering, but astronomers have feared that the use of such an objective ..."

2. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"A doublet is formed by the coalescence of an equal source and sink. ... Hence the velocity potential due to a doublet is equal to the magnetic potential of ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different by John Quekett (1855)
"By far the most important contribution to microscopical science at this period, was the microscopic doublet, the invention of Dr. Wollaston; it is described ..."

4. Electric Oscillations and Electric Waves: With Application to by George Washington Pierce (1920)
"doublet Consisting of an Electron Oscillating in a Positive Atom.—One conception of an oscillating doublet based on the Thomson Atom1 is illustrated in Fig. ..."

5. The Theory and Practice of Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Magnetism by Andrew Gray (1893)
"THEORY OF VIBRATING ELECTRIC doublet important experiments. The spheres were charged to opposite potentials by an induction coil, and then discharged into ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"We are primarily concerned with the half-lives of doublet states for the radical cations. The initial states of radical cations will be primarily singly ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The solar image is moved across the first slit in the one case by means of a photographic doublet, of large field, mounted between the slit and the ..."

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