twinned

[ twind ]

adjective

1. born two at one birth.
2. closely or intimately associated, joined, or united; coupled; paired.

Other Words From

• un·twinned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of twinned¹

First recorded in 1600–10; twin ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Bigger still was Alabama, and the twinned amplification of slavery and commodity crops in Louisiana and Alabama paled in comparison to their growth in Mississippi.

From Time

A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

From The Daily Beast

“My writing life and my life with computers … seem mirrored, computer twinned,” he writes.

From The Daily Beast

When these supportive parts also are twinned in a guy with three nuts, the entire package of packages may work normally.

From The Daily Beast

It crystallizes in the cubic system, the usual form being that of interpenetrating cubes twinned on an octahedral plane.

From Project Gutenberg

Four cells from dried Onion-peel, each holding a crystal of different shape, one of them twinned.

From Project Gutenberg

They climbed recklessly upon the flat tops of toadstools and waved their dimmer twinned lanterns at the flying males.

From Project Gutenberg

The crystals belong to the hexagonal system, and are generally of rhombohedral habit, sometimes twinned.

From Project Gutenberg

Like aragonite it is very frequently twinned, the compound crystals being pseudo-hexagonal in form.

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