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Noun:

  • computing A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes
  • a man?s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
  • a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  • botany A very small flowering plant, ''Dimeresia howellii''
  • lapidary An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  • literature In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  • linguistics one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes (e.g., ''toucher'' and ''toquer'' in French or ''blanche'' and ''blank'' in English).
  • US A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
  • quantum mechanics A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.

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