Definition of "twinned" [twinned]

• Born two in a single birth. (adjective)
• Paired or coupled with something identical or similar. (adjective)
• Mineralogy Formed by the process of twinning. Used of crystals. (adjective)

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• "There was also in the look a slight something like idiocy, for his soul was not precisely with his body; his thoughts, though concerning his father, were elsewhere; the circumstances of his soul and of his body were not the same; and so, being twinned, that is, divided, _twained_, he was as one beside himself."
• "The Somerset town of Wincanton was officially 'twinned' with the Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork in 2002."
• "WPPSS planned Plant 4 at Hanford and 5 at Satsop which would be "twinned" with 1 and 3."