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doppione — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • doppelganger noun Someone who looks strikingly like another person, or a ghostly double of a living person.
  • double adj Twice the usual size, amount, or number, or consisting of two matching parts.
  • doublet noun A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  • duplicate adj Exactly the same as something else, especially because it was copied from it.

Senses

doppione is used for these senses in English:

  • doppelganger A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
  • double A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
  • doublet (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
  • duplicate One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

double — full definition

  1. adj Twice the usual size, amount, or number, or consisting of two matching parts.
  2. verb To make or become twice as large.
  3. noun A person who closely resembles and can stand in for another, often in film for dangerous stunts.

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