doublet

n.

1. A close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men between the 15th and 17th centuries.
2. 1. A pair of similar or identical things.
   2. A member of such a pair.
   3. Physics. A multiplet with two members.
3. Linguistics. One of two words derived from the same historical source by different routes of transmission, such as skirt from Scandinavian and shirt from English.
4. An imitation gem composed of two parts, as of an inferior stone layered beneath a precious gem.
5. doublets Games. A throw of two dice in which the same number of dots appears on the upper face of each.

[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of double, double. See double.]

A pair of associated lines in certain spectra, e.g. the two lines that make up the sodium D-lines.

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noun

Two items of the same kind together: brace, couple, couplet, duet, duo, match, pair, two, twosome, yoke. See group, same/different/compare.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - dublet, dobbeltform, parallelversion, to ens, par, dubletlinjer, dobbeltlinser

Nederlands (Dutch)
doublet, wambuis

Français (French)
n. - (Ling) doublet, pourpoint, justaucorps

Deutsch (German)
n. - Wams, Dublette, (ling.) Doppelform

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διπλότυπη λέξη, (ενδυμ.) είδος εφαρμοστού ζιλέ (μόδας του 15ου αιώνα)

Italiano (Italian)
giubba

Português (Portuguese)
n. - gibão (m), parelha (f), gêmeos (m pl)

Русский (Russian)
камзол, дублет

Español (Spanish)
n. - jubón, casaca, chaleco, uno de un par

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dublett, mansjacka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
紧身上衣, 成对的东西

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 緊身上衣, 成對的東西

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 쌍으로 이루어진 것, 허리가 잘록한 남자의 웃옷, 이중어

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 対の片方, ダブレット

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صدرة ضيقه تلبس من قبل الرجل تحت السترة في مناسبه رسميه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חולצה מהודקת, מלה מאותו מקור‬

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