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twinning

/twin-ing/US // ˈtwɪn ɪŋ //

结对子,结对,结对帮扶,结对的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the bearing of two children at one birth.
    • : the coupling of two persons or things; union.
    • : Crystallography. the union of crystals to form a twin.
    • : an act or instance of matching or resembling someone or something in a specific way, and the acknowledgment of this resemblance: accidental twinning;I love those twinning outfits.Look at their twinning duckfaces.

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Examples

  • Despite humans’ age-old fascination with identical twins, the biological process that generates them, known as monozygotic twinning, “is an enigma,” says Jenny van Dongen, an epigeneticist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • In families where twinning is frequent, bodily deformities likewise occur with frequency.

  • This twinning may be produced by pressure acting either during the crystallization of the rock or at a later period.

  • The plate of material is rather wider than before, and is formed into two combs simultaneously, by the aid of a twinning machine.

  • The second method, known as “twinning” or “parting,” avoids this loss and is also more rapid.

  • The repeated twinning gives rise to twin-lamellae, which may be detected on the fractured surfaces, even of the massive material.