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half-duplex

a. (context telecommunications English) semiduplex

Usage examples of "half-duplex".

As long as you have a half-duplex or full-duplex telephone line, you're in business.

They exist in a strange space, a half-duplex information realm devoid of privacy.

So we’re running our assault gates in half-duplex mode, disassembling and storing the citizens for subsequent virus scanning and reincarnation.