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A double-double is a performance in which a player accumulates a double-digit total in two of five statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots—in a game. The most common double-double combination is points and rebounds, followed by points and assists. [ 2 ]
The double "is", also known as the double copula, reduplicative copula, or Is-is, [1] [2] is the usage of the word "is" twice in a row (repeated copulae) when only one is necessary. Double is appears largely in spoken English , as in this example:
Double, also called a look-alike or doppelgänger, one person or being that resembles another; Polish Enigma double, a machine replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines; Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound; Double, a former rank of liturgical feast in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium.
Double agents are often used to transmit disinformation or to identify other agents as part of counter-espionage operations. They are often very trusted by the controlling organization since the target organization will give them true, but useless or even counterproductive, information to pass along.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864. A doppelgänger [a] (/ ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər,-ɡ æ ŋ-/ DOP-əl-gheng-ər, -gang-), sometimes spelled doppelgaenger or doppelganger, is a ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart.
“Double-height spaces allow for the display of large art pieces and, in the case of studio lofts, the creation of such pieces,” says Saturno-Sanjana. This extra wall space can be a plus, but ...
Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient.