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  • adjective railways Having a pair of tracks in order to allow trains to pass in opposite directions

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Examples

  • One proposed design split the double-track into seperate single-tracks through town.

    Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010

  • Wheeler directed fifteen thousand American soldiers and some thirty-five thousand local laborers, laying down a winding double-track road across steep mountain passes, roaring torrents, and sheer drops.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Qunicy Jones has a recording technique where he does the double-track vocals but he moves the singer around 6-feet away from the microphone the second time just to get a different sound.

    Have a great weekend (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • As a minister she was responsible for the privatization of the Post and Telephone Services, as well as the commissioning of the Betuwe Railway, the double-track freight railway that links the Netherlands and Germany.

    Tech's Top 25 2011

  • Wheeler directed fifteen thousand American soldiers and some thirty-five thousand local laborers, laying down a winding double-track road across steep mountain passes, roaring torrents, and sheer drops.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Then it's time to double-track and he proceeds to do a PERFECT SYNC.

    Have a great weekend (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.

    Montgomery's Purple Line plan includes more access to Georgetown Branch trail 2010

  • The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.

    Montgomery adds Purple Line to plans 2010

  • The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.

    Montgomery's Purple Line plan includes more access to Georgetown Branch trail 2010

  • Songs like Mi Re Do and Burnt, with their fizzing staccato vocal lines in unison with her right hand are full of spiky energy; the cantorial organ-accompanied Ahavas Oylam has a suitably declamatory power; and there's a warm double-track vocal harmony on the Yiddish folk song Hulyet Hulyet.

    Judith Berkson: Oylam 2010

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