different between diplex vs duplex

English

Etymology

di- +? -plex

Adjective

diplex (not comparable)

1. (telegraphy) Involving the transmission of two messages in the same direction at the same time.

   Diplex and contraplex are the two varieties of duplex.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare ????? (plék?, “twist, braid”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: do?o'pl?ks, IPA^(key): /?dupl?ks/

Adjective

duplex (not comparable)

1. Double, made up of two parts.
2. (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).

   duplex telegraphy

3. (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
   • 1977, Australian Journal of Botany (volume 25, page 462)

     Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […]

Antonyms

• (bidirectional): simplex (unidirectional)

Hyponyms

(bidirectional):

• full duplex
• half-duplex
• semiduplex

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Noun

duplex (plural duplexes)

1. (US) A house made up of two dwelling units.
2. (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
3. (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
5. (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
   • 1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin (page 16)

     In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex.

   • 1995, Robert D. Hatcher, Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problems (page 211)

     It has been noted, using a combination of surface geologic and seismic reflection data, that a duplex, although formed in response to movement of a thrust sheet, frequently arches the thrust sheet as the duplex is built by duplication of rocks beneath it […]

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Verb

duplex (third-person singular simple present duplexes, present participle duplexing, simple past and past participle duplexed)

1. To make duplex.
2. To make into a duplex.
3. (juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex, see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.pl?ks/

Noun

duplex m (plural duplex)

1. a link between two points, such as a cable or a wire
2. duplex, maisonette (dwelling)

Derived terms

• duplexer

Further reading

• “duplex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplex.

Noun

duplex m (invariable)

1. party line

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dwipleks, formed from duo (“two”) and plec-, from the root of plic? (“fold”); cf. also plect?, plexum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d??p???ks?] or IPA^(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d??p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d?u?pl?ks] or IPA^(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d?upl?ks]

Adjective

duplex (genitive duplicis, adverb dupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. twofold, double
2. bipartite, cloven
3. ambiguous

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• Sg.Abl. sometimes duplice.

Descendants

• English: duplex
• French: duplex
• Galician: dobre (possibly)
• Italian: duplice, duplex
• Spanish: doble (possibly), dúplex

References

• duplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• duplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• duplex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• duplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French duplex

Noun

duplex n (plural duplexuri)

1. duplex

Declension