Usually means: Two parts, opposite, complementary relationship.
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  1. dual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dual, dual: Wordnik
  7. dual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dual: Wiktionary
  9. dual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dual, dual: Dictionary.com
  13. dual: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DUAL (cognitive architecture), Dual (Heroes), Dual (Sampha EP), Dual (album), Dual (brand), Dual (category theory), Dual (electronics), Dual (film), Dual (grammatical number), Dual (mathematics), Dual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dual: Rhymezone
  19. dual, dual, dual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DUAL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. dual: Free Dictionary
  23. dual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dual: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dual: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. dual: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dual: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. dual: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. dual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. DUAL: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
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  1. The Dual, dual: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Dual: Sports Definitions

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See dualing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
adjective:  Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
adjective:  (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
adjective:  (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
adjective:  (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
noun:  Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
noun:  (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
noun:  (grammar) The dual number.
noun:  (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
verb:  (transitive) To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.

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