Doubling definitions

Doubling

1) Duplation 2) Duplication 3) Fold 4) Geminating 5) Repetition
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Doubling

1) Increase by a factor of two 2) Increasing twofold 3) Multiplication
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doubling

increase by a factor of two
raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
increase twofold
hit a two-base hit, in baseball
bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
make or do or perform again

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a manoeuvre in which two pieces are placed on the same line (rank, file or diagonal) such that they support each other. Special cases are Turton doubling and Zepler doubling.
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Doubling

[psychodrama] In psychodrama, doubling is a technique where a participant, perhaps asked by the psychodrama director, supplements the role (self, role reversal) of the protagonist, usually by standing behind them and saying things that the protagonist might want to say or is withholding. The person performing the supplemental role is common...
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Doubling

[textiles] Doubling is a textile industry term synonymous with combining. It can be used for various processes during spinning. During the carding stage, several sources of roving are doubled together and drawn, to remove variations in thickness. After spinning, yarn is doubled for many reasons. Yarn may be doubled to produce warp for weavi...
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Doubling

(i) Two gracenotes preceding a melody note, bracketing a short gracenote at the same pitch as the melody note (thereby doubling the melody note). (ii) A restatement of a variation in piobaireachd. Usually slightly uptempo and simpler in form.
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Doubling

Area where the heel of an upper mast overlaps a lower mast.
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Doubling

• (n.) The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor. • (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. • (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Double • (n.) The act of one that doubles; a making double; red...
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(from the article `naval warfare`) ...individual ships by bringing greatly superior force to bear on each of them in turn. Popular aims were raking (firing a broadside the length of an ...
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Doubling

An offset printing defect - refers to a second set of dots causing a colour shift in the reproduction.
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Doubling

One actor taking more than one part in a play.
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Doubling

The capacity given to a priest to celebrate Mass twice on the same day. In this case we say that he dubs
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Doubling

1. Sometimes mistakenly used to mean tracking, the recording on multitrack tape of a second performance of an instrumental or vocal part already recorded once (played or sung by the same performers), usually done to achieve a fuller sound. 2. Loosely, creating the aural impression of more players and/or singers than were originally recorded by mixi...
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Doubling

Greenblatt describes this process as, 'The common [Renaissance] practice of having one actor play mu
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doubling

(I) The process of combining two or more strands of ROVING or SLIVER and drawing out the resulting strand. The purpose of this operation is to increase the uniformity of the cotton strand and, ultimately of the YARN made from it. (II) The act of winding two or more strands of YARN onto one PACKAGE without twisting them.
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Doubling

Dou'bling noun 1. The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled. 2. A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden. 3. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shi...
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Doubling

A married couple's right to double the amount of certain property exemptions when filing for bankruptcy together. For example, if a state allows doubling and provides an exemption for equity in a motor vehicle up to $4,000, a married couple filing for bankruptcy together could exempt up to $8,000 in equity.
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