Double

Double or The Double may refer to:

• Multiplication by 2
• Look-alike
• Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
• Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
• Polish Enigma doubles
• Kamen Rider W & Kamen Rider Double (character)
• Doppio, a double shot of espresso.

Sports

• The Double, in association football, the act of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season
• Double (baseball), two-base hit in baseball
  • The Double (Seattle Mariners), a specific instance of the above that occurred during the 1995 Major League Baseball season
• Double, a snooker shot where the player tries to pot a ball via one cushion
• Double (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season
• The Double (Gaelic games), the act of winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in the same year
• The Double (auto racing), in auto racing, the act of a driver attempting to race in two races on the same day during the United States Memorial Day weekend.

Games

• Double, action in games such as bridge and backgammon whereby a competitor raises the stakes
• Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
• In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove (game), a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal

Music

• Double (singer), a Japanese R&B singer.
• Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
• Double (Roch Voisine album), a 1990 album by Roch Voisine
• Double (Zhao Wei album), a 2005 album by Zhao Wei
• Double variation, a variation form in music
• The Double Violin Concerto (Bach) in D minor, BWV 1043, commonly referred to as "The Double" among violinists
• Doubling (music)

Literature

• The Double: A Petersburg Poem, a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Double (novel), a novel by José Saramago
• The Doubles, a novella by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Other

• Double, a bet which combines two selections
• Double, former fraction of the Guernsey pound
• Double precision, in computing a representation of numbers in floating-point format that is typically 64 bits in length.
• Double number, a mathematical construct similar to a complex number
• Dubbel, a type of beer
• edit] See also
  • Doubles (disambiguation)
  • Doubling (disambiguation)
  • Duplication (disambiguation)
  • Single (disambiguation)

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