duplet

English

Mid-17th century. From Latin duplus.

duplet (plural duplets)

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 1	2	3 → ^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal: two Ordinal: second Latinate ordinal: secondary Reverse order ordinal: second to last, second from last, last but one Latinate reverse order ordinal: penultimate Adverbial: two times, twice Multiplier: twofold Latinate multiplier: double Distributive: doubly Group collective: both, pair, twosome Multipart collective: doublet, couple, couplet Greek or Latinate collective: dyad Metric collective prefix: double- Greek collective prefix: di-, duo- Latinate collective prefix: bi- Fractional: half Metric fractional prefix: demi- Latinate fractional prefix: semi- Greek fractional prefix: hemi- Elemental: twin, doublet Greek prefix: deutero- Number of musicians: duo, duet, duplet Number of years: biennium

A group of two things.
1. (music) A tuplet of two notes played in the time of three.
2. (physics) the set of two electrons, with antiparallel spins, in the same orbital
(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.

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