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doubleweight

doubleweight adjective: being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.

Adjective

doubleweight (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.
    • 2 beautiful doubleweight gloss enlargements. 8 guaranteed neverfade prints each roll 25c.1940 November, Popular Mechanics, volume 74, number 5, page 626
    • To reproduce right-of-way, speed-restriction, yard-limit, and other signs, photograph the original signs, and make prints, scale size, on doubleweight paper.1958 December, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 12, page 8

Origin of doubleweight

From double + weight.

Questions about doubleweight

What does doubleweight mean?
Doubleweight means being or relating to a paper of twice the ordinary weight.
What part of speech is doubleweight?
Doubleweight is an adjective.

Words near doubleweight in the dictionary

  1. doubletrees
  2. doublets
  3. doublette
  4. doubletted
  5. doublettes
  6. doubleweight
  7. doublewide
  8. doublewides
  9. doubleword
  10. doublewords
  11. doubleyou

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