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Duplex   /dˈuplˌɛks/   Listen
Duplex

adjective
1.
(used technically of a device or process) having two parts.
2.
Allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously.  "Duplex telephony"
noun
1.
A house with two units sharing a common wall.  Synonyms: duplex house, semidetached house.
2.
An apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase.  Synonym: duplex apartment.
verb
1.
Change into a duplex.



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"Duplex" Quotes from Famous Books



... ac Praesulis Natus; comes Beaumontis; sic, quippe Parnassus, biceps; FLETCHERUS unam in Pyramida furcas agens. Struxit chorum plus simplicem Vates Duplex; Plus duplicem solus: nec ullum transtulit; Nec transferendus: Dramatum aeterni sales, Anglo Theatro, ...
— The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes - Volume I. • Beaumont and Fletcher

... of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... Subjects, 1796, went into a second edition in 1797 under the title, Poems by S.T. Coleridge, Second Edition, to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd. Coleridge invented a motto from Groscollius for the title-page, bearing upon this poetical partnership: "Duplex nobis vinculum, et amicitiae et similium junctarumque Camoenarum; quod utinam neque mors solvat, neque temporis longinquitas!" "Double is the bond which binds us—friendship, and a kindred taste in poetry. Would that neither death nor lapse of ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... mens humana, dum iustificatur, per motum liberi arbitrii recedat a peccato et accedat ad iustitiam. Recessus autem et accessus in motu liberi arbitru accipitur secundum detestationem et desiderium.... Oportet igitur quod in iustificatione impii sit motus liberi arbitrii duplex: unus quo per desiderium tendat in Dei iustitiam, ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

... we write it was an eminently peaceful scene. So still was the atmosphere, so unruffled the water, that the island and the piratical-looking schooner seemed to float in the centre of a duplex world, where every cloudlet in the blue above had its exact counterpart in the blue below. No sounds were heard save the dull roar of the breaker that fell, at long regular intervals, on the seaward side of the reef, and no motion was visible except the back-fin ...
— The Madman and the Pirate • R.M. Ballantyne


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