** Nine of his centuries are double centuries ( surpassed only by Donald Bradman )

** – double acute accent

** – double grave accent

** – double breve

** – double circumflex

** – double macron

** – double tilde

In programming languages such as Ada, Fortran, Perl, Python and Ruby, a double asterisk is used, so is written as " x ** 2 ".

** A Lowland Scots tradition strongly influenced by baroque violin technique with staccato and Scotch snap bowing techniques in addition to the use of double stops.

** A Scottish Borders tradition with a repertoire heavy in hornpipes and with heavy use of double stops.

** Sliabh Luachra fiddling from the southwest in Munster, characterized by a unique repertoire of polkas and slides, as well as the use of double stops and drones as well as playing the melody in two octaves as in Donegal.

** Standard gauge: 7, 394 km gauge ( 2, 270 km electrified ; 1, 236 km double track )

** A variable for a 2-dimensional region in calculus, usually corresponding to the domain of a double integral.

** Strings delimited by single or double quotation marks.

** Triple-quoted strings, which begin and end with a series of three single or double quotation marks.

** Punt and Dennis, a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis

A space X can be embedded into the double dual X ** by

** Boris Morros, American movie producer and FBI double agent ( b. 1891 )

** A double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana kills 41 and injures 150.

** Arsenal FC beats Liverpool FC 2-1 to win the English FA Cup thus completing the league and cup ' double '.

** The Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsizes in the Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.

** A double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the attackers and 15 other people.

** Propellant: Minimum smoke cross linked double based ( XLDB )

* In the Ada, Fortran, Perl, Python, Ruby programming languages, in some dialects of the Pascal programming language, and many others, a double asterisk is used to signify exponentiation: 5 ** 3 is 5 * 5 * 5 or 125.

** Direct action

** " Rule 5: All scenes should begin and end with continuing action.

** Three-dimensional space of action ( 4 %) — Is the cut true to the physical / spatial relationships within the diegesis?

** List of female action heroes

** Utilitarianism, which holds that an action is right if it leads to the most happiness for the greatest number of people.

** State consequentialism or Mohist consequentialism, which holds that an action is right if it leads to state welfare, through order, material wealth, and population growth

** Egoism, the belief that the moral person is the self-interested person, holds that an action is right if it maximizes good for the self.

** Situation Ethics, which holds that the correct action is the one that creates the most loving result, and that love should always be our goal.

** Intellectualism, which dictates that the best action is the one that best fosters and promotes knowledge.

** Welfarism, which argues that the best action is the one that most increases economic well-being or welfare.

** Preference utilitarianism, which holds that the best action is the one that leads to the most overall preference satisfaction.

** Comedy of errors – a work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

** Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1887 )

** Neil James Archibald Primrose, MP ( killed in action ) ( b. 1882 )

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** The first official large unit action of the Vietnam War took place when two companies of the ARVN 23d Division were ambushed by a well-organized Vietcong force of several hundred identified as the " 2d Liberation Battalion ".

** Frederick Fisher, Canadian VC recipient ( killed in action ) ( b. 1894 )

** Charles Sorley, British poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1895 )

** Franz Josef Strauß, the West German defense minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.

** Battle of Mañeru-Third Carlist War-In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action.

** Marcus Aurelius, a Spaniard like Trajan and Hadrian, is a stoical, disciple of Epictetus, and an energetic man of action.

** Switching action of electrical circuitry, including inductive loads such as relays, solenoids, or electric motors.

** Military operation, a military action ( usually in a military campaign ) using deployed forces