English Explanatory Dictionary

biplicity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
  2. Doubleness, the state of being double.

Word forms

biplicity

Etymology

From Latin bi- (“twice”). Bailey (1736) suggests borrowing from Latin biplicitas, but this is not well attested. Compare duplicity, from Latin duplicare (“double”).

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