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detwinned

detwinned is the simple past and past participle of detwin.

Meaning of detwin

Verb

detwin (third-person singular simple present detwins, present participle detwinning, simple past and past participle detwinned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To deform so that it is no longer twinned.

Adjective

detwinned (not comparable)

  1. Describing the components of a twinned crystal that have been separated.

Questions about detwinned

What does detwinned mean?
Detwinned means describing the components of a twinned crystal that have been separated.
What is detwinned the simple past and past participle of?
Detwinned is the simple past and past participle of detwin.
What part of speech is detwinned?
Detwinned is an adjective.

Words near detwinned in the dictionary

  1. Detweiler
  2. Detweilers
  3. Detwiler
  4. Detwilers
  5. detwin
  6. detwinned
  7. detwinning
  8. detwins
  9. detyrosinated
  10. detyrosination
  11. Deu.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detwinned (page history and authors); detwin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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