duplex
[doo-pleks, dyoo-]
- duplex apartment.
- duplex house.
- paper or cardboard having different colors, finishes, or stocks on opposite sides.
- Printing.
- a method of reproducing an illustration using two halftone plates, one black and the other in a color.
- a printing press equipped to print both sides of a sheet in one pass.
- Genetics. a double-stranded region of DNA.
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- having two parts; double; twofold.
- (of a machine) having two identical working units, operating together or independently, in a single framework or assembly.
- pertaining to or noting a telecommunications system, as most telephone systems, permitting the simultaneous transmission of two messages in opposite directions over one channel.
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- to make duplex; make or change into a duplex: Many owners are duplexing their old houses for extra income.
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Origin of duplex
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Contemporary Examples
The Duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.
(Although Roberts also owns a duplex in Dodge City, he rents that out and does not live there).
Now it is still warm, close to eighty degrees, as Oswald walks quickly away from the duplex.
Convince your mistress living in the duplex on South Beach to leave the shades pulled—and to limit the bling.
There are only 12 guest rooms and five duplex suites, so book early.
Historical Examples
The latter is a simple unpolar force, while the former is duplex or polar.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2John Tyndall
Social progress is for the most part typified by this duplex or polar action.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2John Tyndall
This is what is known as the double or duplex standard of sex morality.
WomanWilliam J. Robinson
Would it be indexed generally, or by departments,—duplex or single?
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1Elizabeth Bisland
Jim spent more of his time at his clubs than at his duplex home.
We Can't Have EverythingRupert Hughes
duplex
- US and Canadian a duplex apartment or house
- a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
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- having two parts
- machinery having pairs of components of independent but identical function
- permitting the transmission of simultaneous signals in both directions in a radio, telecommunications, or computer channel
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Word Origin
C19: from Latin: twofold, from duo two + -plex -fold
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Word Origin and History for duplex
adj.
1817, "composed of two parts," from Latin duplex, from duo "two" (see two) + -plex, from Greek plax (genitive plakos) "flat surface." The noun sense of "house for two families; two-story apartment" is American English, 1922.
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