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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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. See deoxyribonucleic acid.
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
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 time, date, and place of posting. 3 (context juggling English) throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time. v
1 To make #Adjective. 2 To make into a #Noun. 3 (qualifier: jugging) To make a series of duplex throws.
WordNet
adj. (used technically of a device or process) having two parts; "a duplex transaction"
allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously; "duplex system"; "duplex telephony"
n. a house with two units sharing a common wall [syn: duplex house, semidetached house]
an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase [syn: duplex apartment]
Wikipedia
Duplex may refer to:
Duplex is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, and starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore.
The film was called Our House for its release in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
A duplex communication system is a point-to-point system composed of two connected parties or devices that can communicate with one another in both directions. "Duplex" comes from "duo" that means "double", and "plex" that means "structure" or "parts of"; thus, a duplex system has two clearly defined data transmissions, with each path carrying information in only one direction: A to B over one path, and B to A over the other. There are two types of duplex communication systems: full-Duplex and half-Duplex.
In a full duplex system, both parties can communicate with each other simultaneously. An example of a full-duplex device is a telephone; the parties at both ends of a call can speak and be heard by the other party simultaneously. The earphone reproduces the speech of the remote party as the microphone transmits the speech of the local party, because there is a two-way communication channel between them, or more strictly speaking, because there are two communication paths/channels between them.
In a half-duplex system, there are still two clearly defined paths/channels, and each party can communicate with the other but not simultaneously; the communication is one direction at a time. An example of a half-duplex device is a walkie-talkie two-way radio that has a " push-to-talk" button; when the local user wants to speak to the remote person they push this button, which turns on the transmitter but turns off the receiver, so they cannot hear the remote person. To listen to the other person they release the button, which turns on the receiver but turns off the transmitter.
Duplex systems are employed in many communications networks, either to allow for a communication "two-way street" between two connected parties or to provide a "reverse path" for the monitoring and remote adjustment of equipment in the field.
Systems that do not need the duplex capability may instead use simplex communication, in which one device transmits and the others can only "listen". Examples are broadcast radio and television, garage door openers, baby monitors, wireless microphones, and surveillance cameras. In these devices the communication is only in one direction.
Duplex is an electronic music duo based out of Rotterdam. After several 12 inch singles, remixes and EPs released on labels such as Clone Records, Dub Recordings and Groundzero, Duplex issued their debut album Late Night Driving in 2006 on Clone. Their sound combines elements of techno and deep house. Much of their back catalog was recently made available to purchase online via Warp Records' Bleep.com music store.
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 had a 110-inch wheelbase, and the proposed tourer was priced at CDN$1750. The prototype was displayed at the 1923 Montreal Show, but there was very little interest shown, and production never eventuated.
In North America, a duplex house is a dwelling having apartments with separate entrances for two households. This includes two-story houses having a complete apartment on each floor and also side-by-side apartments on a single lot that share a common wall. By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is typically considered semi-detached or twin homes but may also be referred to as a duplex.
The term "duplex" can't be extended to three-unit and four-unit buildings, as they would be referred to with specific terms such as triplex and fourplex or quadplex/quadruplex. Because of the flexibility of the term, the line between an apartment building and a duplex is somewhat blurred, with apartment buildings tending to be bigger, while duplexes are usually the size of a normal house.
British English usage refers simply to the number of levels within an apartment unit with duplex indicating two storeys (traditionally this was referred to as a maisonette) and triplex for three. A semi-detached house would never be referred to as 'duplex'.
Duplex (initiated 2010 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz duo comprising Harald Lassen and Christian Meaas Svendsen.
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.