Doublet Explained
Doublet is a word derived from the Latin duplus, "twofold, twice as much", and is used to indicate a pair of identical, similar, or related things.
Doublet may refer to:
Apparel
Games
- Doublet (dominoes), a domino tile in which both ends have the same value
- Doublets (game), old English tables game in the same family as Backgammon
- Word ladder or "doublets", a word game invented by Lewis Carroll
Language
- Doublet (linguistics), two or more words of the same language that come from the same root
- Doublet, in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
- Legal doublet, a standardized phrase in English legal language consisting of two (or more) words
Science and technology
- Doublet (computing), a group of 16 bits in computing
- Doublet (lens), a type of lens, made up of two stacked layers with different refractive indices
- Doublet (potential flow), fluid flow due to a source–sink combination
- Doublet, or dimeresia howellii, a tiny flowering plant
- Doublet earthquake, two earthquakes associated by space and time
- Doublet state, a state in quantum physics of a system with a spin of
- Unit doublet, in mathematics, the derivative of the Dirac delta function
Other uses