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Meaning of twice in English

(Definition of twice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of twice from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of twice

twice
It is especially worth noting that in the market, the price of organic food is at least twice that of food treated with chemicals.
However, it may be wrong to apply the conclusion twice, even if a pair is obtained from two different paths.
The same procedure took place another twice more, using the same 15 words.
These relations are thus indicated twice: once for the human and once for the computer.
Others re-visited once or twice in the first 3 months and then ceased visiting unless problems were thought likely to occur.
Even with the most advanced components, the volume required to prime the perfusion circuit is typically more than twice the blood volume of a neonate.
In both years, sole cassava plots were weeded thrice, and sole pepper or cassava/pepper intercrop plots, twice.
All patients received 60 mg oral pseudoephedrine twice daily as outpatients.
Indeed, prompt-the control delimiter-was "born" twice for radically different reasons.
The number of eggs was counted once or twice each week and tests were maintained until the female died.
This reaches its most inconclusive situation on page 22, when it is used twice in one sentence, both capitalised and not!
Thus, each test was coded at least twice, and all discrepancies were resolved.
Indeed, they cannot do so, since a debt cannot be paid twice, and their own reparation - their repentance and apology - sufficiently pays it.
The risk of death of children in families earning one minimum wage was twice that of children in high income families (10 minimum wages).
Moreover, of course, if one considered "total" vocabulary (counting doublets twice and singlets once), bilinguals could be seen to exceed monolinguals dramatically in vocabulary size.
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Translations of twice

in Chinese (Traditional)
兩次, 兩倍…
in Chinese (Simplified)
两次, 两倍…
in Spanish
dos veces, el doble…
in Portuguese
duas vezes, duas vezes mais…
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in Italian
दोनदा / दुप्पट…
2回, 2倍, 二回(にかい)…
iki kez, iki defa, iki kere…
deux fois [feminine, plural], le double…
dues vegades…
tweemaal, tweemaal zoveel, tweemaal zo goed…
இரண்டு முறை…
दो बार, दोगुना…
બે વાર…
to gange, dobbelt så meget…
två gånger, dubbelt så mycket (många), dubbelt så…
dua kali, dua kali ganda, dua kali ganda lebih…
zweimal, doppelt…
to ganger, dobbelt, dobbelt så mye…
دوبارہ, دوبار, دوگنا…
двічі, удвічі, удвічі більше…
రెండు సార్లు/రేట్లు…
দ্বিগুণ / দুবার…
dvakrát, dvojnásobně, dvakrát lepší…
dua kali, dua kali lipat, dua kali lebih baik…
สองครั้ง, สองเท่า, ดีเป็นสองเท่า…
hai lần, lớn gấp hai lần, tốt gấp hai lần…
dwa razy, dwukrotnie, dwakroć…
두 배…
due volte, (due volte), (due volte tanto)…
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