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Word: dual (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
  • Double.
  • grammar Pertaining to trial''' grammatical number. Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.

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Noun:

  • geometry Of a regular polyhedron with ''V'' vertices and ''F'' faces, the regular polyhedron having ''F'' vertices and ''V'' faces.
  • grammar dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything ('''a couple of''', '''exactly two of'''), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.
  • mathematics Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
  • Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.

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