- Doubling
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Doubling may refer to:
- in maths:
- 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
- in 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.
- in linguistics,
- syntactic doubling is a phenomenon consisting in the lengthening (gemination) of the initial consonant of certain words
- in psychodrama,
- doubling (psychodrama) is a technique of provoking a protagonist by a participant, for effect.
- in 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.
- in 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.
- doubling (yarn) is the process of combining two or more lengths of yarn into a single thread.
See also
- Double (disambiguation)
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