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Oct. 17, 2014
Word of the Day

duple Audio Pronunciation
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\DOO-puhl, DYOO-\
adjective
1. having two parts; double; twofold.
2. Music. having two or sometimes a multiple of two beats in a measure: duple meter.
Quotes
About the same number of poems set to duple or mixed meter tunes have the most characteristic poetic meter of six-syllable lines.
-- Timothy J. Cooley, Making Music in the Polish Tatras, 2005
Origin
Duple entered English in the mid-1500s. It comes from the Latin word duplus which meant "double."
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