Doublet is a word derived from the Latin duplus, "twofold, twice as much",<!-- --> and is used to indicate a pair of identical, similar, or related things.

Doublet may refer to:

Apparel

  • Doublet (clothing), a man's snug-fitting buttoned jacket that was worn from the late 14th century to the mid 17th century
  • Doublet (Highland dress), a formal jacket worn with Scottish highland dress

Games

  • Doublet (dominoes), a domino tile in which both ends have the same value
  • Doublets (game), old English tables game in the same family as Backgammon
  • Word ladder or "doublets", a word game invented by Lewis Carroll

Language

  • Doublet (linguistics), two or more words of the same language that come from the same etymon
  • Doublet, in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
  • Legal doublet, a standardized phrase in English legal language consisting of two (or more) words

Science and technology

  • Doublet (computing), a group of 16 bits in computing
  • Doublet (lens), a type of lens, made up of two stacked layers with different refractive indices
  • Doublet (potential flow), fluid flow due to a source–sink combination
  • Doublet, or dimeresia howellii, a tiny flowering plant
  • Doublet earthquake, two earthquakes associated by space and time
  • Doublet state, a state in quantum physics of a system with a spin of
  • Unit doublet, in mathematics, the derivative of the Dirac delta function

Other uses

  • Doublet (horse), (b. 1963 - †.1974), a thoroughbred gelding
  • Doublet (lapidary), an assembled gem composed in two sections, such as a garnet overlaying green glass
  • Pierre Jean Louis Ovide Doublet (1749–1824), French politician and writer affiliated with the Order of Malta
  • Michel Doublet (1939–2022), French politician.