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| dou·blet [ dúbblət ] (plural dou·blets) |
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1. dress man's jacket: a man's close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, popular in Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries
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2. linguistics word with same root as another: either of two similar words in a language that have the same historical root but have arrived at their current forms via different languages, e.g. "mood" and "mode"
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3. printing repeated printed letter, word, or line: a letter, word, or line that is printed a second time in error
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4. optics pair of lenses used together: a pair of lenses designed to be used together so that one lens cancels out the distortions in the other
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5. minerals fake gem: a fake gem made by sticking a colored layer between two pieces of glass or by sticking a thin layer of a gem on a glass base
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| [14th century. < French, "something doubled"] |
