About The Word Doubling
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Doubling
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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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