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Doubling

Doubling Meaning & Definition
Doubling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Doubling?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Doubling: double

Related Terms | Find terms related to Doubling: 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

See Also | card game | cards | multiplication | raise

Doubling In Webster's Dictionary

\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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