doublet

  • 71doublet — noun a) a man’s close fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s. b) a pair of two similar or equal things; couple …

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  • 72doublet — 1. A combination of two lenses designed to correct the chromatic and spherical aberration. 2. SYN: dipole. 3. Any sequence of two nucleotides in a polynucleotide strand. 4. A closely spaced pair of peaks or lines in a spectrum …

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  • 73doublet — Synonyms and related words: both, brace, cognate, couple, couplet, derivation, derivative, distich, double harness, duad, duet, duo, dyad, eponym, etymon, match, mates, pair, primitive, root, set of two, span, team, the two, twain, two, twosome,… …

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  • 74doublet — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. duplicate, couple, two; see pair . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Two items of the same kind together: brace, couple, couplet, duet, duo, match, pair, two, twosome, yoke. See GROUP, SAME …

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  • 75doublet — doub|let [ˈdʌblıt] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: something doubled ] a man s tight jacket, worn in Europe from about 1400 to the middle 1600s …

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  • 76doublet — dou|blet [ dʌblət ] noun count a man s short tight jacket worn from the 14th to 17th century …

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  • 77doublet — dou·blet || dÊŒblɪt n. fitted jacket worn Europe during the 14th century …

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  • 78doublet — noun 1》 a man s short, close fitting padded jacket, worn from the 14th to the 17th century. 2》 chiefly technical a pair of similar things, e.g. lines in a spectrum.     ↘a pair of words of the same derivation but different meanings, for example… …

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  • 79doublet — n. 1. Body garment, jacket, jerkin. 2. One of a pair …

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  • 80doublet — noun (C) a man s shirt, worn in Europe from about 1400 to the middle 1600s …

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