ALL meanings of doublet
dou·blet
D d - noun doublet a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance. 1
- noun doublet an undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor. 1
- noun doublet a pair of like things; couple. 1
- noun doublet one of a pair of like things; duplicate. 1
- noun doublet Linguistics. one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, especially when one is learned while the other is popular, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly, and coy by way of Old French. 1
- noun doublet Printing. an unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof. 1
- noun doublet doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die. 1
- noun doublet Jewelry. a counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass. Compare imitation doublet, triplet (def 6). 1
- noun doublet Optics. a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations. 1
- noun doublet long-sleeved gilet 1
- noun doublet Either of a pair of similar things, in particular. 1
- noun doublet A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s. 0
- noun doublet A pair of two similar or equal things; couple. 0
- noun doublet (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 yard and garden in English). 0
- noun doublet (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. 0
- noun doublet (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them. 0
- noun doublet (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake. 0
- noun doublet (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. 0
- noun doublet (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes. 0
- noun doublet (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii. 0
- noun doublet A word ladder puzzle. 0
- noun doublet 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. 0
- noun doublet Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost. 0
- noun doublet (Uncountable Noun) A game somewhat like backgammon. 0
- countable noun doublet A doublet was a short, tight jacket that was worn by men in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. 0
- noun doublet (formerly) a man's close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves (esp in the phrase doublet and hose) 0
- noun doublet a pair of similar things, esp two words deriving ultimately from the same source, for example reason and ratio or fragile and frail 0
- noun doublet one of such a pair 0
- noun doublet a false gem made by welding a thin layer of a gemstone onto a coloured glass base or by fusing two small stones together to make a larger one 0
- noun doublet a multiplet that has two members 0
- noun doublet a closely spaced pair of related spectral lines 0
- noun doublet two dice each showing the same number of spots on one throw 0
- noun doublet two simple lenses designed to be used together, the optical distortion in one being balanced by that in the other 0
- noun doublet a man's closefitting jacket with or without sleeves, worn chiefly from the 14th to the 16th cent. 0
- noun doublet either of a pair of similar things 0
- noun doublet a pair; couple 0
- noun doublet a pair of thrown dice with identical sides uppermost 0
- noun doublet a simulated gem produced by cementing together two smaller stones, crystals, or pieces of colored glass 0
- noun doublet either of two words that derive ultimately from the same source but by different processes (Ex.: regal, royal; skirt, shirt) 0
- noun doublet dipole (sense 3) 0