Definitions for duplex

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duplex du·plex

Spelling: [doo-pleks, dyoo-]

IPA: /ˈdu plɛks, ˈdyu-/

Duplex is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in duplex (delpux).

Definitions for duplex

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. Genetics. 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:

Origin of duplex

1810-20; Latin: twofold, double, equivalent to du(o) two + -plex -plex

Examples for duplex

(Although Roberts also owns a duplex in Dodge City, he rents that out and does not live there).

Jim spent more of his time at his clubs than at his duplex home.

The latter is a simple unpolar force, while the former is duplex or polar.

Convince your mistress living in the duplex on South Beach to leave the shades pulled—and to limit the bling.

This is what is known as the double or duplex standard of sex morality.

There are only 12 guest rooms and five duplex suites, so book early.

Would it be indexed generally, or by departments,—duplex or single?

Now it is still warm, close to eighty degrees, as Oswald walks quickly away from the duplex.

Social progress is for the most part typified by this duplex or polar action.

The duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.