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1. Doublet
   [linguistics] In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins (or possibly triplets, etc.) when they have different phonological forms but the same etymological root. Often, but not always, the variants have entered the language through differen...
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2. Doublet
   [lens] In optics, a doublet is a type of lens made up of two simple lenses paired together. Such an arrangement allows more optical surfaces, thicknesses, and formulations, especially as the space between lenses may be considered an "element." With additional degrees of freedom, optical desi...
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3. Doublet
   [lapidary] A doublet is a type of gem composed in two sections. It is sometimes used to imitate other, more expensive gems. A garnet and glass doublet uses a top portion of natural garnet fused to any color of glass to imitate a gem. The color of glass used in the doublet is all that is seen...
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4. Doublet
   [clothing] A doublet is a man`s snug-fitting buttoned jacket that is shaped and fitted to the man`s body which was worn in Western Europe from the Middle Ages through to the mid-17th century. The doublet was hip length or waist length and worn over the shirt or drawers. Until the end of the ...
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5. Doublet
   Two peaks or bands of about equal intensity appearing close together on a spectrogram.
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6. Doublet
   A form of gemstone trickery that was devised to allow inexpensive materials to imitate the more valuable gemstones before modern synthetics were available. A doublet can take several forms but always involves a fake gemstone produced by gluing together two different materials to form an illusion. A ...
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7. doublet
   [n] - a man`s close-fitting jacket
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8. Doublet
   If a bell is not round, individual partials can split into a close pair of frequencies which beat together. Doublets can add antique charm to a bell's sound but are usually to be avoided.
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9. Doublet
   A lens made of two, closely-fitting lenses. The front component of the pair is made of crown glass and is convex on both surfaces, like a magnifying glass, while the rear component is made of flint glass and is concave, so that it is a perfect fit against the front element. Doublets are thicker ...
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10. Doublet
    Two peaks or bands of about equal intensity appearing close together on a spectrogram.
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11. doublet
    an ordered set of two binary digits Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a mathematical concept applicable to the limiting form taken by a source and sink of equal strength,when their respective strengths increase indefinitely as their distance apart along t...
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12. Doublet
    Doub'let noun [ In sense 3, Old French doublet ; in sense 4, French doublet , dim. of double double. See Double , adjective ] 1. Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple. 2. (Print....
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13. doublet
    <microscopy> Two simple lens elements cemented together, for the purpose of giving spherical and chromatic corrections. An achromatic doublet may be composed of a positive crown-glass lens and a negative flint-glass lens. The errors of one element are made to compensate those of the other element. ... (05 Aug 1998) ...
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14. doublet
    noun a man`s close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
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15. Doublet
    • (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple. • (a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time. • (a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or g...
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16. doublet
    (from the article `assembled gem`) A doublet is composed of two pieces of material, usually cemented together at the girdle (the stone`s widest part): if the two pieces are of the same ...
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17. doublet
    (from the article `comet`) Exceptions to the resonance-fluorescence mechanism are known and are exemplified by the case of the emission of the `forbidden` red doublet of atomic ... In the atoms of alkali metals such as sodium and potassium, there are two components of fine structure (called doublets), while in atoms of alkalin...
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18. doublet
    chief upper garment worn by men from the 15th to the 17th century. It was a close-fitting, waisted, padded jacket worn over a shirt. Its ancestor, ... [2 related articles]
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19. Doublet
    A system of two quadrupoles in close proximity, and with opposite polarity, used to simultaneously constrain the beam size in two dimensions at some point downstream.
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20. doublet
    another name for a pair.
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21. Doublet
    A system of two quadrupoles in close proximity, and with opposite polarity, used to simultaneously constrain the beam size in two dimensions at some point downstream.
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22. doublet
    an ordered set of two binary digits
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23. doublet
    A compound lens made from two elements. The elements may be cemented together (forming a cemented doublet) or separated by an air space (forming a separated doublet). The most common doublet is the achromatic lens, consisting of a crown glass and a flint glass element chosen so that the indices of r...
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24. Doublet
    /wams (germ.)- Short overgarment, a variation of the pourpoint. Originally it was worn under the pourpoint, and could be cut with or without sleeves.
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25. Doublet
    In lapidary work, a doublet is a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal, with a colour between them, so that they have the same appearance as if the whole substance of the crystal were coloured.
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