duplex
Americannoun
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paper or cardboard having different colors, finishes, or stocks on opposite sides.
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Printing.
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a method of reproducing an illustration using two halftone plates, one black and the other in a color.
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a printing press equipped to print both sides of a sheet in one pass.
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Genetics. a double-stranded region of DNA.
adjective
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having two parts; double; twofold.
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(of a machine) having two identical working units, operating together or independently, in a single framework or assembly.
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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)
noun
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a duplex apartment or house
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a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
adjective
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having two parts
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machinery having pairs of components of independent but identical function
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permitting the transmission of simultaneous signals in both directions in a radio, telecommunications, or computer channel
Other Word Forms
- duplexity noun
Etymology
Origin of duplex
1810–20; < Latin: twofold, double, equivalent to du ( o ) two + -plex -plex
Example Sentences
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Last month, Szabo reworked the numbers, concluding that the city was financially capable of covering all types of buildings, not just single-family homes and duplexes.
From Los Angeles Times
“And yet,” at the time, “every month some member of the ‘exclusive set’ was giving up his mansion on Fifth Avenue or the near East Seventies and ‘buying a duplex’ in a Park Avenue apartment-house.”
About 250 other structures — duplexes, apartment buildings, condominium complexes — were also destroyed or damaged, those officials said.
From Los Angeles Times
“Thank you for the times when we were well and happy and busy,” Dad prayed over the turkey dinner Karen made for the three of us at his Iowa duplex in November.
In most cities, these parcels would be the sole domain of single-family homes interrupted by the occasional duplex.
From Los Angeles Times
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