doublets
noun
Meaning
- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- 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).
- In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- 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.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
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