dual

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈdul/|/ˈd(j)u.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
  2. 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. The dual number.
  4. 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.
  5. A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
    — Wrestling duals and meets take place at the Wisconsin Field House. There are no advance single event ticket sales.
动词 v.
  1. To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway. transitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. not-comparable
    — a dual-motor vehicle
  2. Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of. not-comparable
    — dual engine failure
  3. Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes. not-comparable
    — Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
  4. Exhibiting duality. not-comparable
  5. Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space). not-comparable
    — Accordingly, a hyperplane in the sample space is dual to a subspace in the variable space.
  6. Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms. not-comparable
    — Every category is dual to its own dual, so if a statement holds in all categories so does its dual.

词形变化

du. alternative,abbreviation duals plural du. alternative,abbreviation duals present,singular,third-person dualing US,participle,present dualling UK,participle,present dualed US,participle,past dualed US,past dualled UK,participle,past dualled UK,past du. alternative,abbreviation

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
词源 2
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
词源 3
PIE word
*dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis.
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