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Double may refer to:

 Look-alike, a person who closely resembles another person

 Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
 Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
 Polish Enigma doubles, replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher
machines
 Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by
UK bookmakers#Double
 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

Contents

 1People
 2Mathematics and computing
 3Food and drink
 4Sports
 5Film and television
 6Games
 7Music
 8Literature
 9Places
 10See also

People[edit]
 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

Mathematics and computing[edit]

 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 , where 
 A 2-tuple, or ordered list of two elements, commonly called an ordered pair,
denoted 
 Double (manifold)

Food and drink[edit]

 Doubles (food), a sandwich that is a common street food in Trinidad and
Tobago
 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

Sports[edit]
 Double (association football), the act of a winning a division and primary cup
competition in the same season
 Double (baseball), a two-base hit in baseball
o 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
Film and television[edit]
 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
o Kamen Rider Double (character), the protagonist in a Japanese
television series of the same name