Adverb

(-)

Two times.

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* 1934 , (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town)

Santa Claus is coming to town. / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice , / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. / Santa Claus is coming to town.

(nonstandard, proscribed)

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Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.

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You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.

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Standing in the lower portion of the boat, he apologizes while Krystyna paces above him, saying that he's just like Andrzej, “only half his age and twice as dumb.”

In a doubled quantity or extent.

To a doubled degree.