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What is the noun for doubles?

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double
  1. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
  2. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
  3. A drink with two portions of alcohol
  4. A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
  5. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
  6. A redundant item for which an identical item already exists
  7. (baseball) A two-base hit
  8. (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
  9. (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
  10. A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
  11. (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
  12. (darts) A hit on this ring.
  13. (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
  14. (computing) A double-precision floating-point number.
  15. (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
  16. (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
  17. (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
  18. (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
  19. (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
  20. (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
  21. Synonyms:
  22. Examples:
    1. “Bethany had played Tatiana's double in the mirror in the second scene of Onegin.”
      “They had a plan for Trey to be a stunt double in films, while Pixie would be that actor who does all of his own stunts.”
      “I am convinced that they were not only printed together but were actually sold together as a double.”
doubler
  1. One who doubles.
  2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
  3. (US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
  4. (colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
  5. Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
  6. (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
  7. A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
  8. Examples:
    1. “The doubler plate is riveted or adhesively bonded onto a stiffening member web, or the tension band is crimped into the stiffening member web.”
      “These instruments are the electrophorus, the condenser of electricity, and the doubler of it.”
      “The hinge bracket failed just below the bottom level of the doubler plate in line with the flap tab skin.”
doubles
doubleness
  1. The state of being double or doubled.
  2. Duplicity; insincerity.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The focus here is on puns that reveal the doubleness of the poet's meaning or the double way we perceive it.”
      “The best apocalyptic stories, I've come to feel, have a doubleness to them.”
      “We shall see why this doubleness is so important in a moment.”
doubles
doublenesses
doublings
  1. plural of doubling
doublers
  1. plural of doubler
  2. Examples:
    1. “From what we know, we would expect to have to replace frames or frame sections, skins, stringers and doublers in the damaged areas.”
      “Adhesive bonding, instead of riveting, is employed by some designers for attaching doublers and stiffeners to the skin sheet.”
      “In the 1970s DSTO, with the strong support of the RAAF, pioneered the use of bonded carbon and boron fibre doublers to repair cracked metal structures.”
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