doublet

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  2. 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 […]
  3. 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.
  4. In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  5. An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  6. A word or phrase set a second time by mistake. US
  7. 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.
  8. A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
  9. A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
  10. A word ladder puzzle.
  11. 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 […]
  12. Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
    — to throw doublets
  13. A game somewhat like backgammon. obsolete,uncountable
  14. Dipole antenna.
  15. A man’s waistcoat. historical
    — I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat […]

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et. Equivalent to double + -et (diminutive suffix)
词源 2
From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).
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