duplex
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.
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.
to make duplex; make or change into a duplex: Many owners are duplexing their old houses for extra income.
Origin of duplex
1Other words from duplex
- du·plex·i·ty, noun
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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.
Best all-in-one printer: Upgrade your home office with these multitasking machines | Carsen Joenk | February 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceTony Rodriguez lives in the second home of the duplex in Antioch that law enforcement searched Saturday.
Nashville Police Chief says Anthony Q. Warner is a person of interest in the Christmas morning explosion | Derek Hawkins, Michael Kranish, Simone Sebastian, Meryl Kornfield | December 27, 2020 | Washington PostIn the brick vastness of the east Bronx, with its towering apartment blocks and modest duplexes, Bronxwood’s cream-and-beige exterior stood out.
“We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic | by Ava Kofman | November 30, 2020 | ProPublicaHe told KPBS he supports allowing duplexes on any single-family lot in the city to expand the supply of housing, which Zosa opposes.
The Ultimate Guide to the Local Election | Voice of San Diego | October 19, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe 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.
She Was Afraid of Her Lawyer. Then the Text Messages Started. | by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor | October 8, 2020 | ProPublica
The duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day | James Jones | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST(Although Roberts also owns a duplex in Dodge City, he rents that out and does not live there).
There's No Place Like Home For Kansas Senator Pat Roberts | Ben Jacobs | May 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow it is still warm, close to eighty degrees, as Oswald walks quickly away from the duplex.
The Man Oswald First Tried to Kill Before JFK | Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis | October 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis 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.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagIt will be seen that flexible metal pipes are used to convey the heated air to the air intakes of the duplex mixing chamber.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagThe Gyro-duplex engine superseded this original design, and a small cross-section illustration of this is appended.
A History of Aeronautics | E. Charles VivianFor absolute simplicity it would be difficult to excel the system adopted in the Jury duplex camera.
Practical Cinematography and Its Applications | Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
British Dictionary definitions for duplex
/ (ˈdjuːplɛks) /
US and Canadian a duplex apartment or house
a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
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
Origin of duplex
1Derived forms of duplex
- duplexity, noun
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