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See also: Dual, duel, and duál

English

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Alternative forms

  • du. (abbreviation, grammar)

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Borrowed from Latin dualis (two), from duo (two) + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dual (not comparable)

  1. Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
    Synonyms: double, twin; see also Thesaurus:dual
    a dual-motor vehicle
  2. Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
    Synonyms: double, duplicate; see also Thesaurus:twofold
    dual engine failure
    dual citizenship
    • 2020, Grace Ying May, “Women Disciplining Men: A Biblical Pattern of Leadership”, in Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, editors, Christian Egalitarian Leadership: Empowering the Whole Church According to the Scriptures, page 48:
      Both Deborah and Samuel held dual roles as judges and prophets.
  3. (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
    Coordinate terms: singular, trial, plural
    Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
  4. (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
  5. (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
    • 2012, Doug Fisher, Hans-J. Lenz, Learning from Data: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics V, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 81:
      Accordingly, a hyperplane in the sample space is dual to a subspace in the variable space.
  6. (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
    Synonym: opposite
    • 1992, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 77:
      Every category is dual to its own dual, so if a statement holds in all categories so does its dual.

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Noun

dual (plural duals)

  1. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
  2. (geometry) 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.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (grammar) The dual number.
  4. (mathematics) 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.

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Verb

dual (third-person singular simple present duals, present participle (UK) dualling or (US) dualing, simple past and past participle (UK) dualled or (US) dualed)

  1. (transitive) To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
    • 1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
      I have to declare an interest and I do so with some ambivalence because if the road is dualled it is likely to take half of my front garden.
    • 2006, David Lowe, Intermodal Freight Transport, page 163:
      The power generation and propulsion systems are dualled to accommodate component failure and maintain propulsion at reduced speed should any part of one system be lost.
    • 2021 September 22, “Network News: Nexus increases Tyne and Wear Metro train order to 46”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23:
      The investment will allow Nexus to increase service frequencies, reduce journey times, and improve reliability by dualling three sections of line between Pelaw and South Shields.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

dual (feminine duale, masculine plural duaux, feminine plural duales)

  1. dual

Noun

dual m (plural duaux)

  1. dual

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

dual (strong nominative masculine singular dualer, not comparable)

  1. dual

Declension

Further reading

  • dual” in Duden online
  • dual” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d̪ˠuəl̪ˠ/, /d̪ˠuəlˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dúal (tress, lock of hair), from Proto-Celtic *doklos, from Proto-Indo-European *doḱlos (compare Icelandic tagl (horse’s tail), Old English tæġl, English tail).

Noun

dual m (genitive singular duail, nominative plural duail)

  1. lock, tress
    Synonyms: dlaoi, dual gruaige
  2. wisp, tuft
    Synonym: dlaoi
  3. ply, strand
  4. twist, twine
  5. spiral, whirl
Declension
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Verb

dual (present analytic dualann, future analytic dualfaidh, verbal noun dualadh, past participle dualta)

  1. (transitive) twine
  2. (transitive) braid, coil
  3. (transitive) interlace, fold
Conjugation

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dual m (genitive singular duail, nominative plural duail)

  1. dowel
  2. knot (in timber)
    Synonyms: alt, cranra
Declension
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Etymology 3

From Old Irish dúal (that which belongs or is proper to an individual by nature or descent), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-.

Adjective

dual (genitive singular masculine duail, genitive singular feminine duaile, plural duala, comparative duaile)

  1. native, natural
    Is dual dó a bheith leisciúil.He is naturally lazy.
    dual don diabhal bheith díomhaoin.
    No rest for the wicked.
    (literally, “It is not in the devil's nature to be idle.”)
  2. proper, fitting
  3. in the natural order of things
  4. fated
  5. possible
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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dual dhual ndual
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /duˈaw/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈdwaw/
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: du‧al

Adjective

dual m or f (plural duais, not comparable)

  1. dual (having two elements)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French duel, from Latin dualis.

Noun

dual n (plural duale)

  1. (grammar) dual

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dúal (that which belongs or is proper to an individual by nature or descent), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dual (comparative duaile)

  1. hereditary
  2. usual, natural
    'S dual do phoileasman a bhith amharasach.It's natural for a policeman to be suspicious.

Noun

dual m (genitive singular duail, plural dualan)

  1. birthright
    Synonym: còir-bhreith
  2. due
  3. something which is natural and/or usual
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dúal (tress, lock of hair), from Proto-Celtic *doklos, from Proto-Indo-European *doḱlos.

Noun

dual m (genitive singular duail, plural dualan)

  1. curl, lock of hair
  2. plait, strand, braid, or fold
  3. ringlet

Verb

dual (past dhual, future dualidh, verbal noun dualadh, past participle dualte)

  1. plait, twist
  2. loop, curl
  3. fold
  4. link

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
dual dhual
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin duālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdwal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: dual

Adjective

dual m or f (masculine and feminine plural duales)

  1. dual
  2. (grammar) dual

Derived terms

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