Definition of Doubling

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Doubling

of Double

The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.

The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.

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Doubling Quotations

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
Thomas Malthus

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
David Rockefeller

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
Jerry Falwell

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Nathaniel Branden

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
Nick Lampson

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Christopher Parker

Doubling Translations

doubling in French is doublant
doubling in German is verdoppelnd

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