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   twin

   /twɪn/

   noun

   • 1. one of two children or animals born at the same birth: "experiments were carried out using sets of identical twins" Similar identical twinsnon-identical twinsfraternal twinsmonozygotic/monozygous twinsdizygotic/dizygous twinsSiamese twins
   • ▪ a person or thing that is exactly like another: "there was a bruise on his cheek, a twin to the one on mine" Similar exact likenessmirror imagedoubleduplicatecarbon copyreplica(living) imagelookalikeclonecounterpartmatchpairfellowmatepartnerDoppelgängerinformal:spitting imagespit and imageringerdead ringer
   • ▪ the zodiacal sign or constellation Gemini.
   • 2. something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts.
   • ▪ a twin-bedded room: "the hotel has 54 rooms, of which 4 are twins"
   • ▪ a twin-engined aircraft.
   • ▪ a twinned crystal.

   adjective

   • 1. forming, or being one of, a pair born at one birth: "she gave birth to twin boys"
   • ▪ forming a matching, complementary, or closely connected pair: "the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration" Similar matchingidenticalmatchedpairedclosely relatedclosely linkedclosely connectedcorrespondingparallelcomplementaryequivalenttwofolddoubledual
   • ▪ growing in pairs: "twin seed leaves"
   • ▪ (of a bedroom) containing two single beds: "we have twin and three-bedded rooms"
   • ▪ (of a crystal) twinned.

   verb

   • 1. link (a town or district) with another in a different country or cause (two towns or districts) to be linked, for the purposes of friendship and cultural exchange: British "the Russian city of Kostroma is twinned with Durham"
   • ▪ link; combine: British "the company twinned its core business of brewing with that of distilling"

   Word Origin late Old Englishtwinn ‘double’, from twi- ‘two’; related to Old Norse tvinnr. Current verb senses date from late Middle English.

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