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How to pronounce doublet in English?

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Type of jacket

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Sleeves velvet, cape ermine, hose blue, and the doublet a lovely shade of green.
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It's a bit like inventing Gore-Tex, and then using it to make doublet and hose.
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Caesar is mentioned to be wearing an Elizabethan doublet instead of a Roman toga.
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In a later design he added a cemented doublet to correct chromatic aberration.
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Thousands of motor protein molecules, called dyneins, are arranged along each doublet.
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Underneath he wears a doublet of patterned material, probably silk damask.
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Modern historians agree that this twice burning of Satricum in 377 and 346 is a doublet.
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Every single Hamlet to be played in doublet and hose, set in a castle?
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The inter-doublet connections between adjacent microtubule pairs are termed nexin linkages.
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  • A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
  • A doublet is a man's snug-fitting buttoned jacket that was worn in Western Europe from the Middle Ages through to the mid-17th century. The term also refers to a formal jacket worn with highland dress, a variation of which is called an Argyll jacket or Prince Charlie jacket (or coatee).
  • A doublet is a type of gem composed in two sections. It is sometimes used to imitate other, more expensive gems.
  • In optics, a doublet is a type of lens made up of two simple lenses attached together. The lenses are made from glasses with different refractive indices and different amounts of dispersion. Often one element is made from crown glass and the other from flint glass. ...
  • In etymology, two or more words in the same language are called doublets or etymological twins (or possibly triplets, etc.) when they have the same etymological root but have entered the language through different routes. ...
  • In quantum mechanics, a doublet is a quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, u22121/2 and +1/2. Quantum systems with two possible states are sometimes called two-level systems...
  • In fluid dynamics, potential flow describes the velocity field as the gradient of a scalar function: the velocity potential. As a result, a potential flow is characterized by an irrotational velocity field, which is a valid approximation for several applications. ...
  • (doublets) variant forms of the same story. (see Collins p 50 for a great list of doublets.
  • An objective lens made of two elements of glass of different refractive qualities (or indices) to counteract the effects of chromatic aberration. Also known as an achromatic lens.