Double

Double or The Double may refer to:

• Multiplication by 2
• Look-alike
• Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
• Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
• Polish Enigma doubles
• Kamen Rider W & Kamen Rider Double (character)
• Doppio, a double shot of espresso

Sports

• Double (association football), the act of a wining a division and primary cup competition in the same season
• Double (baseball), a 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 (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

The Double Dash!! technique in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, which doubles the power of a rocket start.

• Double, action in games whereby a competitor raises the stakes. For use
  • in contract bridge, see: takeout double, negative double, support double
  • in backgammon, see doubling cube
• Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
• In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove (game), a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!! has a double-person mode in which one player drives the kart and the other throws items. Also in the game, there is a rocket start move that is worth twice the power called a Double Dash!!.

Music

• Double (singer), a Japanese R&B singer.
• Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
• Double (Roch Voisine album), a 1990 album by Roch Voisine
• Double (Zhao Wei album), a 2005 album by Zhao Wei
• Double variation, a variation form in music
• The Double Violin Concerto (Bach) in D minor, BWV 1043, commonly referred to as "The Double" among violinists
• Doubling (music)

Literature

• The Double: A Petersburg Poem, a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Double (novel), a novel by José Saramago
• The Doubles, a novella by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Film

• The Double (1963 film), a 1963 British thriller film
• The Double (film), a 2011 spy thriller film

Other

• Double precision, in computing, a representation of numbers in floating-point format that is typically 64 bits in length.
• Split-complex number, or double number, a mathematical construct similar to a complex number
• Dubbel, a type of beer
• Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers#Double
• Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound

See also

• Doubles (disambiguation)
• Doubling (disambiguation)
• Duplication (disambiguation)
• Single (disambiguation)