How to pronounce "dual"

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Squids have a an extremely complex,

interesting sex life.

Here you see a male and a female.

The male, on the left, has been fighting off other males

to pair with the female, and now he's showing a dual pattern.

He shows courtship and love on her side, fighting on the other.

Watch him when she shifts places --

and you see that he has fluidly changed the love-courtship pattern

to the side of the female.

So this kind of dual signaling simultaneously

with a changing behavioral context is really extraordinary.

It takes a lot of brain power.

Phonetic Breakdown of "dual"

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Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ˈdjuː.əl/

/ˈd(j)uː.əl/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

D UW1 AH0 L

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Definition of "dual"

Pronunciation: /ˈdjuː.əl/

Noun

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.

Example: "The octahedron is the dual of the cube."
(grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.
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.

Verb

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

Adjective

Exhibiting duality; characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Acting as a counterpart.
Double.

Example: "a dual-headed computer"
(grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something, such as a pair of shoes, in the context of the singular, plural and, in some languages, trial grammatical number.

Example: "Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek."
Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.