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duplex

[ doo-pleks, dyoo- ]

noun

  1. paper or cardboard having different colors, finishes, or stocks on opposite sides.
  2. Printing.
    1. a method of reproducing an illustration using two halftone plates, one black and the other in a color.
    2. a printing press equipped to print both sides of a sheet in one pass.
  3. Genetics. a double-stranded region of DNA.


adjective

  1. having two parts; double; twofold.
  2. (of a machine) having two identical working units, operating together or independently, in a single framework or assembly.
  3. pertaining to or noting a telecommunications system, as most telephone systems, permitting the simultaneous transmission of two messages in opposite directions over one channel.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make duplex; make or change into a duplex:

    Many owners are duplexing their old houses for extra income.

duplex

/ ˈdjuːplɛks /

noun

  1. a duplex apartment or house
  2. a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. having two parts
  2. machinery having pairs of components of independent but identical function
  3. permitting the transmission of simultaneous signals in both directions in a radio, telecommunications, or computer channel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • duˈplexity, noun
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Other Words From

  • du·plexi·ty noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of duplex1

1810–20; < Latin: twofold, double, equivalent to du ( o ) two + -plex -plex
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Word History and Origins

Origin of duplex1

C19: from Latin: twofold, from duo two + -plex -fold
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Example Sentences

Finally, double-sided printing, or duplex printing, may also be available if you are looking for an added bonus feature in your best all-in-one printer.

Tony Rodriguez lives in the second home of the duplex in Antioch that law enforcement searched Saturday.

In the brick vastness of the east Bronx, with its towering apartment blocks and modest duplexes, Bronxwood’s cream-and-beige exterior stood out.

He told KPBS he supports allowing duplexes on any single-family lot in the city to expand the supply of housing, which Zosa opposes.

The ding of Kerwin’s cellphone notifications filled the three-bedroom duplex apartment she shared with the boyfriend who introduced her to heroin, his teenage son and her 9-year-old son.

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.

His family rents the lower duplex of a brownstone in Cobble Hill, where his two children share a room.

Convince your mistress living in the duplex on South Beach to leave the shades pulled—and to limit the bling.

Strap a Duplex Reflector on to your back, and fasten a Hansom cab-lamp on to each knee.

Duplex carburetors are necessary to secure the best results from eight- and twelve-cylinder V engines.

It will be seen that flexible metal pipes are used to convey the heated air to the air intakes of the duplex mixing chamber.

The Gyro-Duplex engine superseded this original design, and a small cross-section illustration of this is appended.

For absolute simplicity it would be difficult to excel the system adopted in the Jury Duplex camera.

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