Definition of Doubler

1. Noun. An electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal.

Generic synonyms: Electronic Device

Definition of Doubler

1. n. One who, or that which, doubles.

2. n. A part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.

Definition of Doubler

1. Noun. One who doubles ¹

2. Noun. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doubler

1. one that doubles [n -S] - See also: doubles

Medical Definition of Doubler

1. 1. One who, or that which, doubles. 2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doubler

doublecrossing
doubled
doubled down
doubled up
doubledecker
doubledome
doubledomes
doubleganger
doublegangers
doubleheader
doubleheaders
doublehearted
doubleness
doublenesses
doublequote
doubler (current term)
doublers
doubles
doubles down
doubles up
doublespeak
doublespeaker
doublespeakers
doublespeaks
doublestack
doublestrike
doublet
doublet microtubule
doubletalk

Literary usage of Doubler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney, Thomas H. Calvert, Edward Thompson Company (1917)
"The doubler and worm-tanks shall be elevated not less than one foot from the floor ; and every fixed pipe to be used by the distiller, except for conveyance ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"spirits from the doubler are run through charcoal leach tubes before ... Distilled in a pot still with a capacity °f 3.374 gallons, and with a doubler, ..."

3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1801)
"WN the doubler of Bennet, to which I adapted the following machinery in the year 1788, is not yet generally noticed in elementary works, and, ..."

4. Electricity and the Electric Telegraph by George Bartlett Prescott (1888)
"THE ELECTRICAL doubler. The purpose of the Electrical doubler is to increase the ... The principle involved in the construction of the doubler will be best ..."

5. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"The first machine of this kind seems to have been Nicholson's Revolving doubler, described in the Philosophical Transactions for 1788 as 'an instrument ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on Electricity by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"The first machine of this kind seems to have been Nicholson's Revolving doubler, described in the Philosophical Transactions for 1788 as 'an instrument ..."

7. Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph: And of Some Other Electrical Apparatus by Francis Ronalds (1823)
"... DESCRIPTION op A PENDULUM doubler. WISHING to convince' some of those, with whom seeing only is believing, that it was possible to keep my telegraphic ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... replenished (1867); it is virtually that of Bennet's doubler. Closely allied to these machines is Thomson's Water- water-dropping potential equalizer. ..."

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