(a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
(a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
(a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
(a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
(a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
(a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
(a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, analogous OMPs in the LGV strains existed as a doublet with a molecular mass of about 60,000 Da.
(2) The antigen (a protein doublet of Mr 75,000-80,000) is present in, but not restricted to, the myelin lamellae, since it is distributed along the whole myelinating Schwann cell membrane.
(3) In this respect earlier reports by other authors were confirmed but minor compounds not detected so far could be revealed as 15:1, the doublet 18:1 and i-18:0, 19:1 and 20:1.
(4) Studies with substrate analogs selectively modified at the basic doublet indicated that the integrity of both basic amino acids is essential but that conformational parameters, probably governed by the amino acid sequences flanking the basic doublet, play an important role.
(5) During FV, 10 of 26 motoneurons began their discharges with doublets (interspike interval < 10 ms); doublets occurred in only 4 of 67 motoneurons during FC.
(6) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
(7) The proacrosin appeared as a doublet (Mr = 55,000 and 53,000) on both of these systems.
(8) The excess intensity (approximately 17%) of the low-spin doublet must therefore be assigned to heme a3 in a modified environment.
(9) The other, p24, migrated as a sharp band or closely spaced doublet with an apparent molecular weight of 24 kD.
(10) Twenty-four amino acid doublets were found; the most abundant of these are Pro-Pro and Ala-Ala which each occur five times.
(11) Rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) in culture synthesize and secrete a approximately 38,000-Mr protein doublet or triplet that, as previously described (Majack and Bornstein.
(12) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(13) In one recombinant clone the large CRP appeared to be posttranslationally cleaved at two sites, forming a doublet in a manner similar to the large-CRP doublet made in native C. psittaci 6BC.
(14) Ciliary abnormalities fell into four major categories: (1) cilia with a single axoneme and excess cytoplasmic matrix; (2) compound cilia; (3) intracytoplasmic microtubular doublets; and (4) cilia within periciliary sheaths.
(15) The mobility of this doublet is identical under reducing and non-reducing conditions.
(16) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(17) When cytosines in CpG doublets in G + C-rich fragments were methylated (mCpG), the reactivity increased up to 100-fold.
(18) When analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and mercaptoethanol, the protein migrated as a doublet with apparent molecular masses of 55 and 60 kilodaltons (kDa) and as a 50-kDa band in nonreducing gels.
(19) The N-acetylimidazole-reacted apoprotein supplemented with hemin and reacted with hydroperoxides, neither showed electronic absorption spectra of higher oxidation states nor an EPR doublet signal due to a tyrosyl radical.
(20) Stimulus trains starting with an initial doublet produced maximum rate of tension development (optimum impulse pattern).
Jerkin
Definition:
(n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
(n.) A male gyrfalcon.
Example Sentences:
(1) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(2) The degree of protection afforded by three jerkin G-suit systems (British, Canadian and Swedish) using different pressures against the adverse physiological effects produced by high levels (50 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg) of positive pressure breathing (PPB) was investigated at ground level in 10 male subjects.
(3) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
(4) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
(5) Respiration was recorded using a jerkin plethysmograph.
(6) Like a children's story, all the Drax staff had to wear bright red jerkins.
(7) R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single.
(8) Black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness | Morgan Jerkins Read more Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes .