Doubling may refer to:
Math:
- Multiplication by 2
- Doubling the cube, a geometric problem
- Doubling time, the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value
- Doubling map
- period-doubling bifurcation
Music:
- The composition or performance of a melody with itself or itself transposed at a constant interval such as the octave, third, or sixth, Voicing (music)#Doubling
- The assignment of a melody to two instruments in an arrangement
- the playing of two (or more) instruments alternately by a single player, e.g. Flute, doubling piccolo
- Musicians who play more than one woodwind instrument are called Woodwind Doublers or Reed Players
- Doubletracking, a recording technique in which a musical part (or vocal) is recorded twice and mixed together, to strengthen or "fatten" the tone.
Linguistics:
- Syntactic doubling is a phenomenon consisting in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant of certain words
Psychodrama:
- Doubling (psychodrama) is a technique of provoking a protagonist by a participant, for effect.
Firearms:
- When more than one round is fired in a semiautomatic gas powered rifle with only one pull of the trigger, also known as a slam fire.
Two-way radio:
- Doubling is where two or more transmitters transmit at once on the same frequency, interfering with one another and garbling all messages.
Other:
- Doubling (yarn) is the process of combining two or more lengths of yarn into a single thread.
Famous quotes containing the word doubling:
“My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectly puresuch as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek.... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
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