dual.
Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Meaning & usage
Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
a dual-motor vehicle
Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
dual engine failure
dual citizenship
Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
Exhibiting duality.
Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
The octahedron is the dual of the cube. The icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron.
The dual number.
Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
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