Meaning of DOUBLING
| Pronunciation: | | 'dubling
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- [n] raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"
- [n] increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"
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| | Synonyms: | | double |
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| | See Also: | | card game, cards, multiplication, raise | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dou"bling\, n.
1. The act of one that doubles; a making double;
reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
2. A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare;
shift; trick; artifice. --Dryden.
3. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or
escutcheon.
4. The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the
strength and flavor.
{Doubling a cape}, {promontory}, etc. (Naut.), sailing around
or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguity, ambivalence, biformity, bifurcation, bush, bushing, conduplication, conjugation, copying, crease, creasing, crimp, dichotomy, dog-ear, double, doubleness, doublethink, doublure, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplicate, duplication, duplicature, duplicity, echo, equivocality, facing, filler, filling, flection, flexure, flounce, fold, frill, gather, gemination, halving, imitation, ingemination, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, irony, iteration, Janus, lapel, lappet, liner, lining, packing, padding, pairing, plagiarism, plica, plication, plicature, ply, polarity, quotation, reappearance, rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regurgitation, reincarnation, reiteration, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, replication, reproduction, resumption, return, ruche, ruching, ruffle, stuffing, tuck, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, wadding, wainscot |
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