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  • noun Plural form of doubler.

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Examples

  • On the original schedule, it was me and two new waitresses and two doublers on the day shift.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Margaret is also a contender for leader of Scottish Labour as the BBC report, providing the intriguing possibility of both SNP and Labour having MSP/MP doublers at their helms.

    Glasgow East: Margaret Curran to Match Salmond Double? 2008

  • The naive lattice discretization of the Dirac operator gives rise to “doublers” (spurious fermion species) and N-N basically says that there is no way to fix this without ruining the chiral nature of the theory, i.e. ruining the possibility to decompose the massless lattice fermion action into decoupled left - and right-handed pieces.

    String Theory is Losing the Public Debate Sean 2007

  • My Nan and I are going to work in June on taking a part a cover and making a pattern to make some (depending on the material we need) and to make doublers and all.

    brile Diary Entry brile 2002

  • Even the most venturesome doublers realize that, except in the unusual case, it is unwise to double a bid of one, whether it be in a suit or

    Auction of To-day Milton C. Work

  • This invention was solved practically about two years since, and is now being employed as applied to drawing frames, doublers, speeder, intermediate, and slubber.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

  • Afterward if the thread was for tram it went direct to the doublers, to be made stronger; but if it was for organzine it was spun again after leaving the doubling frames, and was given a much tighter twisting.

    The Story of Silk Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • The trisectors, the circle-squarers, and the cube-doublers, had seen their long-flouted theories proved to demonstration by one of the most learned and responsible men of science in the world, and one of their most sarcastic and hitherto successful flouters had been compelled to confess that he could find no flaw in the calculations of this mathematical Daniel so unexpectedly come to judgment.

    The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • Most of the YouTube doublers I've seen are just there to add a soundtrack to a video.

    Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2011

  • If we get that nice little present, it will be but the latest in a long string of champagne-popping round-number-threshold-jumpers, doublers and historic hurdles.

    unknown title 2011

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