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a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
(linguistics) one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes (e.g., toucher'' and ''toquer'' in French or ''yard'' and ''garden in English).
(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
(printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes
(botany) A very small flowering plant,
A word ladder puzzle.
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
* 1855 , Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
(uncountable) A game somewhat like backgammon.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun doublet
is a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves men in europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.doublet
English
Noun
(en noun)- The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye
- to throw doublets
- (Halliwell)
Quotations
; jacket * 1602 : , act 2 scene 1 line 75 *: Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, *See also
* homolog * pair * twin (coefficient)false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
