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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "make double," from Old French dobler , from Latin duplare , from duplus (see double (adj.)). Meaning "to work as, in addition to one's regular job" is c.1920, circus slang, from performers who also played in the band. Related: Doubled ; doubling ...
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In the subject of manifold theory in mathematics , if M is a manifold with boundary , its double is obtained by gluing two copies of M together along their common boundary. Precisely, the double is M × {0, 1}/ ∼ where ( x , 0) ∼ ( x , 1) for all x ∈ ∂ M ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Double \Dou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doubled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubling .] [OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See Double , a.] To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; ...
Usage examples of double.
Guillaume Erard unfolded a double sheet of paper, and read Jeanne the form of abjuration, written down according to the opinion of the masters.
It cannot be classified as a whorl of the double loop type because the formation above the lower loop is too pointed and it also has an appendage abutting upon it at a right angle.
He was an acausal double, a synchronous mirrorself, the echo of the godmind returning from the future, as unconscious of his power as the Delph was aware.
He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.
Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.
The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.
He seemed young to be a General of Division, for such his double embroideries and aigrette proclaimed him.
After a marathon twenty-four hour session, utilising studios One, Two and Three as well as listening rooms 41 and 42, the huge double album was finally mixed and sequenced at 5 p.
Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.
Message in hand, Alec galloped half a mile down the road before doubling back through the trees to where Seregil and Micurn were waiting.
The sight of his own visage on that godlike frame thrilled him, and he laughed aloud as he willed his elemental double into battle against Ameer Tukephremo.
One of the latest and warmest of her friends was the brilliant and high-souled Ampere, introduced to her by Ballanche, who had been an intimate friend of his father, and who now loved the son with double fervor, a debt which the grateful young man repaid with interest in a noble tribute to his memory.
The molecule of estrone, for instance, differs from that of androsterone only in the presence of three double bonds and in the absence of carbon-ig.
Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.
As always, our point is that a double standard should not be employed in the evaluation of paleoanthropological evidencean impossibly strict standard for anomalous evidence and an exceedingly lenient standard for acceptable evidence.