Double
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Double may refer to:
- Look-alike, a person who closely resembles another person
- Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
- Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
- Polish Enigma doubles, replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines
- Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers#Double
- Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound
- Double, a former rank of a liturgical feast in the Roman Rite
People
- Baron Emile Double (1869–1938), vigneron who established the vineyard at the Château de Beaupré in Saint-Cannat in 1890
- François-Joseph Double (1776–1842), French physician
- Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert (1891–1974), French philanthropist later known as Countess Lily Pastré
- Steve Double (born 1966), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Austell and Newquay since 2015
Mathematics and computing
- Multiplication by 2
- Double precision, a floating-point representation of numbers that is typically 64 bits in length
- A split-complex number of the form , where
- A 2-tuple, or ordered list of two elements, denoted
- Double (manifold)
- Double (Java), a type of variable which supports decimals or fractions 5 3/4 / 5.250 / 5 while integers only support full numbers
Food and drink
- Doubles (food), a sandwich that is a common street food in Trinidad and Tobago
- Doppio, a double shot of espresso
- Dubbel, a strong Belgian Trappist beer or, more generally, a strong brown ale
- A drink order of two shots of hard liquor in one glass
- A "double decker", a hamburger with two patties in a single bun
Sports
- Double (association football), the act of a winning a division and primary cup competition in the same season
- Double (baseball), a two-base hit in baseball
- The Double (Seattle Mariners), a specific instance of the above that occurred during the 1995 Major League Baseball season
- Double, a snooker shot where the player tries to pot a ball via one cushion
- Double (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season
- Double (volleyball)
- Double (basketball)
- The Double (Gaelic games), the act of winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in the same year
- Double Duty (auto racing), in auto racing, the act of a driver attempting to race in two races on the same day during the United States Memorial Day weekend
Film and television
- The Double (1963 film), a 1963 British thriller film
- The Double (1971 film), a 1971 Italian film
- The Double (2011 film), a 2011 spy thriller film
- The Double (2013 film), a 2013 film based on the Dostoevsky novella
- Kamen Rider Double (character), the protagonist in a Japanese television series of the same name
Games
- Double, action in games whereby a competitor raises the stakes. For use
- double, in contract bridge
- Doubling cube, in backgammon
- Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
- The Nintendo GameCube video game Mario Kart: Double Dash‼
- An arcade action game Double Dragon
Music
- Double album, audio album spanning two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and CDs
- Doubling (voicing), a kind of musical voicing
- Double variation, a variation form in music
- Pasodoble, a traditional couple's dance from Spain
- Double (singer) (born 1975), Japanese R&B singer
- Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
- Double (Roch Voisine album), a 1990 album by Roch Voisine
- Double (Zhao Wei album), a 2005 album by Zhao Wei
- "Double" (BoA song), 2003
- "The Double", an instrumental by Clint Mansell from the Black Swan soundtrack (2010)
- The Double Violin Concerto (Bach) in D minor, BWV 1043, commonly referred to as "The Double" among violinists
- Dobble, a Ghanaian musical act that is sometimes also known as Double
Literature
- The Double (Dostoyevsky novel), an 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Double (Saramago novel), a 2002 novel by José Saramago
- The Doubles, a novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Places
- Double Lake, a lake in Minnesota
See also
- Binary (disambiguation)
- Doubles (disambiguation)
- Doubling (disambiguation)
- Duplication (disambiguation)
- Double letter
- Single (disambiguation)
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