Doublet vs Pourpoint - What's the difference?
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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.
As nouns the difference between doublet and pourpoint
is that doublet is a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s while pourpoint is a quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries.doublet
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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)
