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Apartment with a staircase
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duplex
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 double, made up of two parts 2 (context lang=en telecommunications) bidirectional (gloss: in two directions) n. 1 house made up of two dwelling units 2 (context philately English) a cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Duplex was a Canadian automobile built by the United Iron Works Company, of Montreal in 1923. The engine was an unconventional 4-cylinder two-stroke engine with two pistons per cylinder, which the makers claimed gave excellent fuel economy. The Duplex ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As I stood at the lower landing of this duplex . ▪ Many of these cards also include 3D, surround sound and full duplex features. ▪ Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
duplex \du"plex\, n. [See Duplex , a.] something which is duplex; -- used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units. (Biology, Genetics) a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule. ...
Usage examples of duplex.
There are modern instances in which the funis has been bifid or duplex, and there is also a case reported in which there were two cords in a twin pregnancy, each of them measuring five feet in length.
Brian Epstein was their roadie and bodyguard Mai Evans, who was shot to death by police in his rented duplex at 8122 West 4th Street in Los Angeles on the night of 4 January 1976.
Edison invented duplex telegraphy by which two messages could be sent over the same wire in the same direction at the same time.
Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.
The other half of the duplex was occupied by Biggy and Kathy Zaremba and their two little kids.
Bartholinus, Heister, Hufeland, Morgagni, Riolan, and Sandifort cite examples of duplex stomach.
The lady had given him some damn fine advice: The duplexes had appreciated many times in value since then, and having the spare house also brought in some nice retainer income from three congressional offices that seemed to have an occasional need for extremely discreet living quarters.
Among the celebrated anatomists who describe duplex heart are Littre, Meckel, Collomb, Panum, Behr, Paullini, Rhodins, Winslow, and Zacutus Lusitanus.
Martina in New York, running his duplex, wowing his moneymen and, for all I knew, proving a nightly sackful.
He'd probably never see the inside of his Brookline duplex again, but if he did, it would be through eyes which now belonged to Mr Gray.
It was a light-industry and duplex neighborhood wedged between the freeway and El Camino Real.
Might have to live with a duplex version-a re-chartered Company and a Colonial Legislature.
My parents lived deep in the burg in a narrow duplex that on a cold day like this would smell like chocolate pudding cooking on the stove.
An adult husky in a duplex apartment supposedly occupied by them alone.
Globke himself occupied a duplex apartment in a condominium building situated on the heights just across the Hudson River.