Definitions from Wiktionary (doublet)

▸ 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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