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noun

Doubler n.

One who, or that which, doubles.

(Elec.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

A part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.

(Calico Printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.

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Etymology of 'Doubler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sensibility of our nerves of sense to very small quantities of the electric fluid, as it passes through them; for I suppose these sensations are occasioned by slight electric shocks produced in the following manner. By the experiments published by Mr. Bennet, with his ingenious doubler of electricity, which is the greatest discovery made in that science since the coated jar, and the eduction of lightning from the skies, it appears that zinc was always found minus, and silver was always found plus, when both of them were in their separate ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

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