Duplex (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. duplex apartment.
  2. duplex house.
  3. paper or cardboard having different colors, finishes, or stocks on opposite sides.
  4. 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.
  5. a double-stranded region of DNA.
adjective
  1. having two parts; double; twofold.
  2. (of a machine) having two identical working units, operating together or independently, in a single framework or assembly.
  3. 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)
  1. to make duplex; make or change into a duplex: Many owners are duplexing their old houses for extra income.
noun
  1. a duplex apartment or house
  2. a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
adjective
  1. having two parts
  2. having pairs of components of independent but identical function
  3. permitting the transmission of simultaneous signals in both directions in a radio, telecommunications, or computer channel
Duplex (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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