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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.
Duplicate publication, the publication same intellectual material by the same author twice; Reduplication, a morphological process in linguistics; Duplicate bridge, a popular variant of contract bridge; Duplicate Scrabble, a Scrabble variant popular in French and some other languages
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
Duplicate bridge A form of bridge where every deal is played at several tables, by several pairs, and their scores on each deal are subsequently compared. A minimum of two tables (four pairs) are required for a duplicate bridge event. Each entry might be a pair, or a team consisting of two or more pairs; the type of scoring varies accordingly.
A dupe (duplicate) or knockoff is a product similar in appearance, functionality, or design to a higher-end, often more expensive, branded item but sold at a much lower price. Unlike counterfeit products , dupes do not copy trademarked brand names or logos and are often sold at mainstream retailers.
Iteration marks have been occasionally used for more than two thousand years in China.The example image shows an inscription in bronze script, a variety of formal writing dating to the Zhou dynasty, that ends with "子 𠄠 孫 𠄠 寶用", where the small 𠄠 ("two") is used as iteration marks in the phrase "子子孫孫寶用" ("descendants to use and to treasure").
Publication of the same or overlapping research in both English and the local language in different journals should not be interpreted as a duplicate publication. There is still a large proportion of doctors and other professionals in many countries who have limited access to international journals and many lack language skills in English.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.