doublet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
2. isim 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). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
3. isim In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
4. isim An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
5. isim A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
6. isim 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.
7. isim A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
8. isim A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
9. isim A word ladder puzzle.
10. isim 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.

    “The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye […]”

11. isim Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

    “to throw doublets”

12. isim A game somewhat like backgammon.
13. isim Dipole antenna.
14. isim A man’s waistcoat.

    “I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat […]”

15. isim A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.

    “Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]”