What does DUAL mean?

Definitions for DUAL
ˈdu əl, ˈdyu-du·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. double, dual, dupleadjective

    consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs

    "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"

  2. double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-foldadjective

    having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities

    "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison

  3. dualadjective

    a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)

    "ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek"

Wiktionary

  1. dualnoun

    Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.

  2. dualnoun

    Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.

    The octahedron is the dual of the cube.

  3. dualnoun

    dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.

  4. dualnoun

    Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.

  5. dualadjective

    Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.

  6. dualadjective

    Double.

    dual-headed computer

  7. dualadjective

    Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something, such as a pair of shoes, in the context of the singular, plural and in some languages, trial grammatical number. Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.

  8. Etymology: dualis, from duo, + adjective suffix -alis

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dualadjective

    Expressing the number two.

    Etymology: dualis, Latin.

    Modern languages have only one variation, and so the Latin; but the Greek and Hebrew have one to signify two, and another to signify more than two: under one variation the noun is said to be of the dual number, and under the other of the plural. John Clarke, Latin Grammar.

ChatGPT

  1. dual

    Dual generally refers to two aspects, parts, or elements of something that are related and necessary to form a whole. It could mean something that has a double identity, role, function, nature, or aspect. The term is used in various fields such as mathematics, physics, and computer science, and its specific meaning can vary depending on the context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dualadjective

    expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek

  2. Etymology: [L. dualis, fr. duo two. See Two.]

Wikidata

  1. Dual

    Dual is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities identified by the noun or pronoun. Verbs can also have dual agreement forms in these languages. The dual number existed in Proto-Indo-European, persisted in many of the now extinct ancient Indo-European languages that descended from it—Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and Gothic for example—and can still be found in a few modern Indo-European languages such as Scottish Gaelic, Slovenian, Sorbian, and Frisian. Many more modern Indo-European languages show residual traces of the dual, as in the English distinctions both vs. all, either vs. any, neither vs. none, and so on. Many Semitic languages also have dual number. For instance, in Arabic all nouns can have singular, plural, or dual forms. For non-broken plurals, masculine plural nouns end with ون -ūn and feminine plural nouns end with ات -āt, whilst ان -ān, is added to the end of a noun to indicate that it is dual.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dual

    dū′al, adj. consisting of two.—ns. Dū′ad, a pair of objects looked at as one; Dū′al-control′, any joint control or jurisdiction, as of England and France in Egypt; Dū′alism (philos.), that view which seeks to explain the world by the assumption of two radically independent and absolute elements—e.g. (1) the doctrine of the entire separation of spirit and matter, thus being opposed both to idealism and to materialism; (2) the doctrine of two distinct principles of good and of evil, or of two distinct divine beings of these characters; Dū′alist, a believer in dualism.—adj. Dualis′tic, consisting of two: relating to dualism.—ns. Dual′ity, doubleness: state of being double; Dū′al-school, a school for both boys and girls; Dū′archy, government by two. [L.,—duo, two.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DUAL' in Adjectives Frequency: #943

Anagrams for DUAL »

  1. udal

  2. auld

  3. laud

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DUAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DUAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of DUAL in a Sentence

  1. Stephen Fredrick:

    It appears that it could have had a single-engine flameout, it could have had a dual-engine flameout, those are things we're going to learn.

  2. Rick Scott:

    These counselors cannot serve dual roles, like teaching or academic advising, every student must have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a mental health professional, and receive ongoing counseling as needed.

  3. Geoff Ramsey:

    Its very much a dual diplomacy situation for many of these countries.

  4. Lopez Obrador:

    I hope that today or in the coming days he presents the migration plan, what it is going to consist of, how they are going to respect their right to be recognized, that they get dual nationality.

  5. Huw Evans:

    In the UK, the real political uncertainty for our sector comes from the dual and interconnected possibility that the UK could leave the EU and that the UK could dissolve if Scotland voted to become independent, even five years ago, the likelihood of both would have seemed far more remote than they do now and so we certainly cannot be complacent.

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