A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
Used in a Sentence
doublet
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for doublet.
Editorial note
Cipher comes from the same root as Zero (sifr), making it a doublet word.
Examples10
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of doublet gathered in one view.
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for doublet.
noun
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
noun
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
noun
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
noun
A word ladder puzzle.
Example sentences
Cipher comes from the same root as Zero (sifr), making it a doublet word.
Purport as noun here is weird for contemporary speakers even if they have an idea of the meaning and a lot of the clothing terms like doublet and ungartered are not spectacularly common these days.
To make a lens like this, you would have to buy a glass blank of the right type (two, actually- a doublet is made of two different types of glass), grind and polish them (very messy), and then bond them and apply an antireflective coating.
It is done exactly the same way for any electroweak fermion doublet (as long as you are happy with the default choice of Dirac mass terms for all of them), be it up quark and down quark or neutrino and electron.
Chromatic aberration can be good enough with doublet lens design and Petzval is largely solved by the final field flattener usually with multiple concave and convex sections, and you can still easily fit a large number of lenses in a small formfactor.
The non-minimal Higgs sector favoured by theory are the two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDM), which predict the existence of a quintet of scalar particles: two CP-even neutral Higgs bosons h0 and H0, a CP-odd neutral Higgs boson A0, and two charged Higgs particles H±.
Quote examples
That site doesn't seem great, but according to Wiktionary "assay" is a doublet of "essay", i.e.
I find it very interesting though that the paper speaks about excluding the "type II two-Higgs-doublet (2HD) model charged Higgs", but I don't know what "type II" there means.
In fracked resources the main issue is "short circuiting" where increased flow rates travel along preferential paths between the doublet wells as the source rock cools and cooling rate of the source rock in general.
Proper noun examples
Doublet of rail, regal, regula and rigol.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use doublet in a sentence?
Cipher comes from the same root as Zero (sifr), making it a doublet word.
What does doublet mean?
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
What part of speech is doublet?
doublet is commonly used as noun.