doubler
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Synonyms: double, doublet, doubter, doubled, doubles, dobler, doebler
Antonyms: double, doublet, doubter, doubled, doubles, dobler, doebler
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Noun
- One who doubles.
- An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
- A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.
- The mechanics fastened a doubler over the hole where the cracked section of the plane's skin had been cut out.
- The airworthiness directive called for riveting a reinforcing doubler to the wing midspar web to keep the spar from buckling under flight loads.
- Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
- A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
- A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A diaper insert.
Noun
- A tenement house having two families on each floor.
- A biplane aeroplane or kite.
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