dual vs plural

dual

adj
  • Exhibiting duality. 

  • Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. 

  • Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes. 

  • Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms. 

  • Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space). 

  • Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of. 

verb
  • To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway. 

noun
  • Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space. 

  • The dual number. 

  • Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair. 

  • Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces. 

plural

adj
  • Pluralistic. 

  • Consisting of or containing more than one of something. 

  • In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual. 

noun
  • A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder. 

  • The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something. 

  • A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. 

How often have the words dual and plural occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )