Doublet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
  2. an undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor.
  3. a pair of like things; couple.
  4. one of a pair of like things; duplicate.
  5. one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, especially when one is learned while the other is popular, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly, and coy by way of Old French.
  6. an unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof.
  7. a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.
  8. a counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass.
  9. a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.
noun
  1. (formerly) a man's close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves (esp in the phrase doublet and hose.)
    • a pair of similar things, esp two words deriving ultimately from the same source, for example reason and ratio or fragile and frail
    • one of such a pair
  3. a false gem made by welding a thin layer of a gemstone onto a coloured glass base or by fusing two small stones together to make a larger one
  4. physics
    • a multiplet that has two members
    • a closely spaced pair of related spectral lines
  5. two dice each showing the same number of spots on one throw
  6. two simple lenses designed to be used together, the optical distortion in one being balanced by that in the other
Doublet (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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