Usually means: Two individuals sharing same womb.
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  1. twin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. twin, twin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. twin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Twin, twin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Twin, twin: Wordnik
  7. twin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Twin, twin: Wiktionary
  9. twin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. twin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. twin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. twin: Dictionary.com
  13. twin (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. twin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Twin (EP), The Twin (album), The Twin (disambiguation), The Twin (novel), Twin (TV series), Twin (disambiguation), Twin (production team), Twin (windowing system), Twin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Twin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. twin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Twin: Rhymezone
  19. twin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. twin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. twin: Free Dictionary
  22. twin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. twin: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Twin (Biological), twin: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Twin (Biological), twin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Twin: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Twin: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. Twin (Biological), twin: Medical dictionary
  6. Twin: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TWIN: Acronym Finder
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Twin: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. twin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twin: The Folk File
  3. twin, the twin: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See twining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
noun:  Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
noun:  A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
noun:  (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
noun:  (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
noun:  (crystallography) A twin crystal.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
verb:  (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
verb:  (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
verb:  (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
verb:  (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
adjective:  Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
adjective:  Forming a pair of twins.
noun:  (baseball) A player who plays for the Minnesota Twins.

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