Double

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Double or The Double may refer to:

• Look-alike
• Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
• Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
• Polish Enigma doubles

Sports

• Doublebugg, a dancesport which is performed by three dancers.
• 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, in association football (soccer), the act of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season
• The Double (Gaelic games), in 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, including bridge and backgammon, whereby a competitor raises the stakes to around twice their previous level
• Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
• In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove, a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal (e.g. 8 instead of 4)

Music

• DOUBLE (singer)
• Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
• Double variation, a variation form in music
• The Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043, commonly referred to as "The Double" among violinists

Literature

• The Double: A Petersburg Poem, a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Double (novel), a novel by José Saramago

Electronic recording studio effects

• Doubler, adding a slightly delayed copy or sometimes many copies with various virtually instantanious delays of the original signal, usually at the same volume to create a sound of more than one audio signal.

Other

• Double, a bet which combines two selections
• Double, former fraction of the Guernsey pound
• Double precision, computer numbering format that occupies two storage locations in computer memory at address and address+1
• Double negative, in language
• Double-banded
• Double-crested
• Double-ended
• Double-eyed
• Double-headed
• Double-lined
• Double-spurred
• Double-striped
• Double-Tongued
• Double_Data_Type

[edit] See also

• Doubles
• Duplication
• Single

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