Double
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Double can mean:
- In baseball, a double is a two-base hit.
- An action in many games, including bridge and backgammon whereby a competitor raises the stakes to around twice their previous level.
- In Dance Dance Revolution, a double is a gamemode where you play using both dance-pads.
- In computer science, double is used as shorthand for double precision.
- In English football, a team is said to win the double when they win the league and the F.A. Cup in the same season. Likewise in Scotland, with the SPL and Scottish Cup.
- Double is sometimes used to refer to a person who could be a twin, a body double, or an impersonator.
- A Double is a former fraction of the Guernsey pound, equal to ½ farthing, or 1/1920 pound
- Double were a Swiss pop duo (from Zürich) that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "The Captain of Her Heart". (official website: [link])
- Double is the stage name of a popular female Japanese pop artist.
- Double is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina.
- In classical psychodrama, the Double is the role that speaks as the client's "inner voice," often expanding what is said or hinted.
- In folklore and the supernatural, double means doppelgänger.
- See also:
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