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Duplex
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- 1 Double; made up of two parts.; Having two floors. not-comparable
- 2 Double; made up of two parts.; Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments. not-comparable
- 3 Double; made up of two parts.; Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions. not-comparable
"Duplex stainless steels have been classified according to the first period (1930–1960) and second period (1960–1990). The designations for these duplex alloys in the United States have been primarily according to Unified Numbering System (UNS) numbers in the S3xxx.x series."
- 4 Bidirectional (in two directions). not-comparable
"duplex telegraphy"
- 5 Having horizons with contrasting textures. not-comparable
"Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […]"
- 1 allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously wordnet
- 2 (used technically of a device or process) having two parts wordnet
- 1 A house made up of two dwelling units. Australia, Canada, US
"The house had been renovated into a duplex and he’d put in a phone line."
- 2 an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase wordnet
- 3 A dwelling unit with two floors. US
- 4 a house with two units sharing a common wall wordnet
- 5 A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
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- 6 A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- 7 A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- 8 A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
"In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex."
- 1 To make duplex.
- 2 change into a duplex wordnet
- 3 To make into a duplex.
- 4 To make a series of duplex throws.
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex.
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex.
PIE word *dwóh₁ Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex.
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