释义
[ doo -pleks, dyoo - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈdu plɛks, ˈdyu- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun duplex apartment.
duplex house.
paper or cardboard having different colors, finishes, or stocks on opposite sides.
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. Genetics . a double-stranded region of DNA.
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective having two parts; double; twofold.
(of a machine) having two identical working units, operating together or independently, in a single framework or assembly.
pertaining to or noting a telecommunications system, as most telephone systems, permitting the simultaneous transmission of two messages in opposite directions over one channel.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object) to make duplex; make or change into a duplex: Many owners are duplexing their old houses for extra income.
Origin of duplex 1810–20; <Latin: twofold, double, equivalent to du (o ) two + -plex -plex
OTHER WORDS FROM duplex du·plex·i·ty, noun Words nearby duplex Dupleix, duple rhythm, Duplessis-Mornay, duplet, duple time, duplex , duplex apartment, duplex chain, duplexer, duplex house, duplex kidney
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Example sentences from the Web for duplex The Duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.
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(Although Roberts also owns a duplex in Dodge City, he rents that out and does not live there).
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Now it is still warm, close to eighty degrees, as Oswald walks quickly away from the duplex .
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Convince your mistress living in the duplex on South Beach to leave the shades pulled—and to limit the bling.
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There are only 12 guest rooms and five duplex suites, so book early.
Gal With a Suitcase | Jolie Hunt| November 21, 2009| DAILY BEAST
The duplex for aeronautical motors is made of cast aluminum alloy.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred Pag
Duplex est humilitas: una lucida solum et non fervida: qu ex ratione potius quam ex charitate exercetur.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard Baxter
Early Christian rings of silver are unusual; that now represented is of duplex form.
Finger-Ring Lore | William Jones
The next step in advance was the "dead-beat escapement," which included the cylinder and duplex .
Watch and Clock Escapements | Anonymous
Social progress is for the most part typified by this duplex or polar action.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 | John Tyndall
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British Dictionary definitions for duplex noun US and Canadian a duplex apartment or house
a double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule
adjective having two parts
machinery having pairs of components of independent but identical function
permitting the transmission of simultaneous signals in both directions in a radio, telecommunications, or computer channel
Derived forms of duplex duplexity , noun Word Origin for duplex C19: from Latin: twofold, from duo two + -plex -fold
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Words related to duplex double, twin, paired