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Doublet

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Doublet is a word derived from the Latin duplus, "twofold, twice as much", and is used to indicate a pair of identical, similar, or related things.

Doublet may refer to:

Apparel

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Games

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Language

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  • Doublet (linguistics), two or more words of the same language that come from the same root
  • Doublet, in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
  • Legal doublet, a standardized phrase in English legal language consisting of two (or more) words

Science and technology

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  • Doublet (computing), a group of 16 bits in computing
  • Doublet (lens), a type of lens, made up of two stacked layers with different refractive indices
  • Doublet (potential flow), fluid flow due to a source–sink combination
  • Doublet, or dimeresia howellii, a tiny flowering plant
  • Doublet earthquake, two earthquakes associated by space and time
  • Doublet state, a state in quantum physics of a system with a spin of 12
  • Unit doublet, in mathematics, the derivative of the Dirac delta function

Other uses

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