duplex

Meanings

Adjective

• Double, made up of two parts.
• Bidirectional .
• Having horizons with contrasting textures.

Noun

• A house made up of two dwelling units.
• A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
• A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
• A double-stranded polynucleotide.
• A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.

Verb

• To make duplex.
• To make into a duplex.
• To make a series of duplex throws.

Related

Opposite words

• simplex

Narrower meaning words

• full duplex
• half-duplex
• semiduplex

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin duplex ("double, two-fold"), from duo + plico; compare πλέκω. Analyzable as duo- + -plex.