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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) doublet
a close-fitting jacket, sleeved or sleeveless, sometimes with a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.

2.  doublet
a pair of like things; couple.

3.  doublet
one of a pair of like things; duplicate.

4.  doublet
a unit composed of two closely or identically matched pieces, as an artificial gem.

5.  doublet
one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, esp. through different routes, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly and coy by way of Old French.

6.  doublet
doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.

7.  doublet
a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME < MF. See double , -et)

Definition of 'doublet'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) doublet
a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance

Definition of 'doublet'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) doublet
two of the same kind; a pair; a couple

2. (adj) doublet
a word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time

3. (adj) doublet
a close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century

4. (adj) doublet
a counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone

5. (adj) doublet
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

6. (adj) doublet
two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets

7. (adj) doublet
a game somewhat like backgammon

8. (adj) doublet
one of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc

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