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twinned

[ twind ]

adjective

  1. born two at one birth.
  2. closely or intimately associated, joined, or united; coupled; paired.


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Other Words From

  • un·twinned adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of twinned1

First recorded in 1600–10; twin 1 + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

Bigger still was Alabama, and the twinned amplification of slavery and commodity crops in Louisiana and Alabama paled in comparison to their growth in Mississippi.

From Time

A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

“My writing life and my life with computers … seem mirrored, computer twinned,” he writes.

When these supportive parts also are twinned in a guy with three nuts, the entire package of packages may work normally.

It crystallizes in the cubic system, the usual form being that of interpenetrating cubes twinned on an octahedral plane.

Four cells from dried Onion-peel, each holding a crystal of different shape, one of them twinned.

They climbed recklessly upon the flat tops of toadstools and waved their dimmer twinned lanterns at the flying males.

The crystals belong to the hexagonal system, and are generally of rhombohedral habit, sometimes twinned.

Like aragonite it is very frequently twinned, the compound crystals being pseudo-hexagonal in form.

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