Usually means: Pair of closely linked items.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word doublet:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. doublet: Merriam-Webster
  2. doublet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doublet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doublet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doublet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doublet, doublet: Wordnik
  7. doublet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doublet: Wiktionary
  9. doublet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doublet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doublet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. doublet: Dictionary.com
  13. Doublet (clothing), Doublet (computing), Doublet (disambiguation), Doublet (horse), Doublet (lapidary), Doublet (lens), Doublet (linguistics), Doublet (potential flow), Doublet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Doublet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. doublet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. doublet: Rhymezone
  17. Doublet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. doublet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. doublet: FreeDictionary.org
  20. doublet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. doublet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. doublet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doublet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. doublet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. doublet: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Doublet: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  2. IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
noun:  (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
noun:  (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
noun:  (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
noun:  (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
noun:  (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
noun:  (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
noun:  (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
noun:  A word ladder puzzle.
noun:  An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
noun:  Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
noun:  (radio) Dipole antenna.
noun:  (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
noun:  A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.

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