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Definition of Duplets
1. duplet [n] - See also: duplet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duplets
Literary usage of Duplets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"In the resulting compound, if no duplets are shared by the atoms, ... If then we
let B be the total number of duplets shared within the given group of atoms ..."
2. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"The time is ignored, incommensurable passages can only be worked in by the feel,
triplets and duplets are mingled with each other, or a wonderful ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE FRENCH SETTLEMENTS: LA BOURDONNAIS AND duplets Even before the commencement
of the eighteenth century, it might be said that all rivalry had ceased in ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"... (i) by altering the number of pulses into which the stress-group was
divided (substitution of triplets in binary metre, and of duplets in ternary). ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"This is qualified by Samuel Johnson as a very great performance," and abounds in
striking and pithy duplets. Herbert Croft asserted that Young made £3000 by ..."
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