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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?bl?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
3. (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
4. (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
5. (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
6. (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
7. (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, ?½ and +½.
8. (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
9. (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
10. A word ladder puzzle.
11. An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
12. Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

13. (uncountable) A game somewhat like backgammon.

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14. (radio) Dipole antenna.

Synonyms

• (pair of two similar things): duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo

Translations

See also

• homolog
• pair
• twin
• twinling

Etymology 2

From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic ???? (“to en-wrap”).

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
   • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1, line 75

     Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]

Translations

Further reading

• doublet in Hensleigh Wedgwood, On False Etymologies, Transactions of the Philological Society,1855
• doublet at OneLook Dictionary Search
• doublet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• bled out, boulted, outbled

French

Etymology

double +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.bl?/

Noun

doublet m (plural doublets)

1. (lexicography) doublet

Further reading

• “doublet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• variaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin vari?ns, the present active participle of vari? (“to change”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vâr'?-?nt, IPA^(key): /?v???i.?nt/, /?væ?i.?nt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v???i.?nt/

Adjective

variant (comparative more variant, superlative most variant)

1. Showing variety, diverse.
2. Showing deviation or disagreement.
3. (obsolete) Variable.
4. (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.

Translations

Noun

variant (plural variants)

1. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

   All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.

   The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.

2. (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
3. (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
4. (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

Related terms

• variance
• variation
• vary

Translations

See also

• alternate
• alternative

Anagrams

• nativar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vari?ns, attested from 1839.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.?i?ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.?i?an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /va.?i?ant/

Adjective

variant (masculine and feminine plural variants)

1. varying

Noun

variant m (plural variants)

1. variant

Related terms

• variar

References

Further reading

• “variant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “variant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “variant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French variant or variante, from Latin vari?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?.ri??nt/
• Hyphenation: va?ri?ant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

variant m (plural varianten, diminutive variantje n)

1. A variant.

Synonyms

• variante

Derived terms

Related terms

• variabiliteit
• variabel
• variatie
• variëren
• variëteit

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: varian

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.?j??/

Verb

variant

1. present participle of varier

Adjective

variant (feminine singular variante, masculine plural variants, feminine plural variantes)

1. varied, which varies; variable

Related terms

• variabilité
• variable
• variation

Further reading

• “variant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

variant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vari?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin varians

Noun

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural varianter, definite plural variantene)

1. a variant

References

• “variant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin varians

Noun

variant m (definite singular varianten, indefinite plural variantar, definite plural variantane)

1. a variant

References

• “variant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Adjective

variant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular variant or variante)

1. varying; which varies

Descendants

• ? English: variant
• French: variant

Swedish

Etymology

From French variante, attested from 1779.

Noun

variant c

1. variant

Declension

Related terms

• variera

References