doubleheadedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

double-headed (not comparable)

1. Having two heads.

   a double-headed serpent

   double-headed muscles

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

     The arms of the City of Perth are mounted on the breast of a double-headed eagle, from which the single-headed eagle of the railway arms was derived.

   • 2005, Ashish Pandey, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, page 212:

     Doli: Georgian double-headed cylindrical drum

2. (numismatics) Of a coin, having a head on both sides, especially when counterfeited by being constructed from two separate coins.
3. (rail transport) Of a train, hauled by two locomotives.

   Related terms: triple-headed

4. (film) Synonym of sepmag (“having separately recorded picture and soundtrack”).