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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Fitted with or involving the use of two threads or wires.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Two-threaded; having two threads.
  • noun A micrometer fitted with two threads.
  • noun An electric circuit doubled back upon itself so that the conductor is closely adjacent to the return-conductor and the inductance of the circuit is thereby reduced to a minimum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads.
  • adjective an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having two wires, threads or filaments

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or using two filaments

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