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How to pronounce dual
Say it like this: /ˈdul/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does dual mean?
adjCharacterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
“a dual-motor vehicle”
Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
“dual citizenship”
Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
“Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.”
nounOf an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
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. The icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron.”
The dual number.
verbTo convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.
“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.”
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