Double

A double is a look-alike or doppelgänger; one person or being that resembles another.

Double, The Double or Dubble may also refer to:

Film and television

• Double (filmmaking), someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
• The Double (1934 film), a German crime comedy film
• The Double (1971 film), an Italian film
• The Double (2011 film), a spy thriller film
• The Double (2013 film), a film based on the Dostoevsky novella
• Kamen Rider Double, a 2009–10 Japanese television series
  • Kamen Rider Double (character), the protagonist in a Japanese television series of the same name

Food and drink

• Doppio, a double shot of espresso
• Dubbel, a strong Belgian Trappist beer or, more generally, a strong brown ale
• A drink order of two shots of hard liquor in one glass
• A "double decker", a hamburger with two patties in a single bun

Games

• Double, action in games whereby a competitor raises the stakes
  • double, in contract bridge
  • Doubling cube, in backgammon
• Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
• A kart racing game Mario Kart: Double Dash
• An arcade action game Double Dragon

Literature

• The Double (Dostoevsky novel), an 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Double (Saramago novel), a 2002 novel by José Saramago
• Double (manga), a 2019 manga series by Ayako Noda
• Andrew Dubble, the primary character in the Andrew Lost children's novels

Mathematics and computing

• Multiplication by 2
• Double precision, a floating-point representation of numbers that is typically 64 bits in length
• A split-complex number of the form $x+yj$, where $j^{2}=+1$
• A 2-tuple, or ordered list of two elements, commonly called an ordered pair, denoted $(a,b)$
• Double (manifold), in topology

Music

• Double album, audio album spanning two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and CDs
• Doubling (voicing), a kind of musical voicing
• Double variation, a variation form in music
• Pasodoble, a traditional couple's dance from Spain
• Double (singer) (born 1975), 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" (BoA song), 2003
• "The Double", an instrumental by Clint Mansell from the Black Swan soundtrack (2010)
• The Double Violin Concerto (Bach) in D minor, BWV 1043, commonly referred to as "The Double" among violinists

People

• Baron Emile Double (1869–1938), vigneron who established the vineyard at Château de Beaupré
• François-Joseph Double (1776–1842), French physician
• Marie-Louise Double de Saint-Lambert (1891–1974), French philanthropist later known as Countess Lily Pastré
• Steve Double (born 1966), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Austell and Newquay since 2015

Places

• Double (lunar crater), in Mare Tranquillitatis
• Double Lake, a lake in Minnesota, US

Sports

• Double (association football), the act of a winning a division and primary cup competition in the same season
• Double scull, a two-man sculling boat raced in the sport of rowing
• 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 (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season
• Double (volleyball), scoring ten or more in a statistical category (aces, kills, blocks, digs, or assists) in a single match
• Double-double (basketball), accumulating ten or more in two of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, or blocks) in a single game
• Double Duty, a driver attempting to compete in the Indycar Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 on the same day
• 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 (rugby league), winning the Super League and Challenge Cup in one season

Other

• Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers#Double
• Polish Enigma doubles, replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines
• Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound
• Double, a former rank of liturgical feast in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
• Double-flowered form of plants

See also

• All pages with titles containing Double or Doubles
• All pages with titles beginning with Double

• Double letter
• Doubles (disambiguation)
• Doubling (disambiguation)
• Duplication (disambiguation)
• Single (disambiguation)
• Binary (disambiguation)
• Dual (disambiguation)
• Duo (disambiguation)
• Pair (disambiguation)
• Twin (disambiguation)