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n. (plural of doubling English)
Usage examples of "doublings".
In order to provide 300 million twig tips, only 29 successive doublings would be required.
In this way, by successive doublings, they managed to evolve a strain of RNA that could self-replicate in very high concentrations of ethidium bromide, 10 times as concentrated as the poison that had inhibited the original ancestral V2 RNA.
The numbers go up by successive doublings, from 8 to 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, 4,096, 8,192.
After only 20 doublings, which doesn't take very long, we are up in the millions.
An Alpha of 1,000 means that the number of doublings per microsecond is a vast number, a1000 - the number 2 multiplied by itself one thousand times.
An Alpha of 1,000 means that the number of doublings per microsecond is a vast number, 21000—the number 2 multiplied by itself one thousand times.
I am afraid that in repeating a conversation which I overheard on board the Erie canal boat, I shall spoil it, by forgetting some of the little delicate doublings which delighted me--yet I wrote it down immediately.
This zone leaps up and down as you watch, its position and dimensions malleable in the face of quite small perturbations, but understand that if all the variables were constant— the air perfectly still, the embers’ combustion perfectly uniform—the transition zone would hang exactly so, its frequency doublings happening over and over at the same exact positions, as if rows of invisible knives hung there, cleaving the vortices in twain as they rose, doubling their number with each successive row.
All the themes are there, in tiers of silence, whole bureaucracies of silence, in conspiracies and doublings and brilliant betrayals.
The Aiffe-bird tried to dodge the arrow, but it danced after her, tracking her frantic doublings and stooping wherever she fled, until there was nothing for her but to change shape in midair.
In their ramifications and doublings back upon themselves they made a compact network, having in size and shape an amazing resemblance to the human figure.