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doubling

noun

1 doubling

Increase by a factor of two.

Roget 90: duplication; doubling etc. v.; gemination, ingemination; reduplication; iteration etc. (repetition) 104; renewal.   

Roget 702: cunning, craft; cunningness, craftiness etc. adj.; subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering etc. v.; temporization; circumvention.    chicane, ... show more

Polish: dublowanie, podwajanie, zdwajanie

2 doubling

Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2.

synonym: double.

Roget 258: fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, biformity, bifurcation, bush, bushing, conduplication, conjugation, copying, crease, creasing, crimp, dichotomy, dog-ear, double, doubleness, doublethink, doublure, dualism ... show more.

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