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🏠 Two-unit home 🔄 Two-way system 🏠 To split a home
duplex

duplex

6.3
Having two parts or allowing movement in both directions at the same time
  • adjective
  • /ˈduːplɛks/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dúplex
  • The duplex printer allows you to print on both sides of the paper automatically.

Examples

  • Our network router supports duplex communication, enabling simultaneous data transfer.

  • This new phone features a duplex audio system for hands-free calling.

  • It's double helical duplex DNA or something.

Antonyms

single
976 1.0

Applying to only one group or system

simplex
1 8.1

Made of a single part and not of smaller parts

Compounds

duplex apartment
  • US
1 3.4

An apartment with rooms on two floors connected by an inside staircase

duplex house
  • US
3.5

A house divided into two homes that share a wall or floor

How Two-Way

duplex
  • Specialized
6.3
one-way
111 2.7

Surface Forms

duplex positive

Etymology

Duplex comes from the Latin parts duo 'two' and plex 'fold', and is like double or duplicate. So a duplex system is made of 'two parts' or works 'two-way', which is why it can send and receive at the same time.