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Duplex

adjective

(used technically of a device or process) having two parts.

Allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously. "Duplex telephony"

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Etymology of 'Duplex'

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"Duplex" Quotes from Famous Books

... support of an hypothesis the very reverse of M. Comte's, at once proves that his generalisation is only a half-truth. The fact is, that neither proposition is correct by itself; and the actuality is expressed only by putting the two together. The progress of science is duplex: it is at once from the special to the general, and from the general to the special: it is analytical and synthetical at the ...

— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... it's slower than the rise of a toy balloon." Seaton threw down the papers and picked up his slide-rule, a twenty-inch trigonometrical duplex. "You'll concede that it is allowable to neglect the radial component of the orbital velocity of the earth for a first approximation, won't you—or shall I figure ...

— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... particularly, need a good, cheap, steam plow that can be made practicable for at least the better grade of farmers. The English plan of moldboards, that overcome all possible traction and necessitate the duplex stationary engines, with the cumbrous "artillery of attachments," may do for sluggish people but will never meet the wants of ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... he told Catherine more fully of his ambition and gave her a glimpse of the hidden side of his duplex nature. ...

— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens

Words linked to "Duplex" : multiple, telecommunication, house, apartment, semidetached house, bidirectional, convert, telecom, flat