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quadruplex
English
Etymology
From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”)
Adjective
quadruplex (not comparable)
- Having four components.
- Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
- Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
Translations
Noun
quadruplex (plural quadruplexes)
- A quadruplex system.
Translations
Verb
quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed)
- (transitive) To make quadruplex.
Latin
Etymology
From quattuor (“four”) + plic? (“fold, double up”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?a.dru.pleks/, [?k?äd???p???ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kwa.dru.pleks/, [?kw??d??upl?ks]
Adjective
quadruplex (genitive quadruplicis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- fourfold, quadruple
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Noun
quadruplex n (genitive quadruplicis); third declension
- a fourfold amount
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Related terms
- quadruplic?ti?
- quadruplic?t?
- quadruplic?
- quadrupl?
- quadruplus
Descendants
- English: quadruplex
References
- quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quadruplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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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)
- Double, made up of two parts.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- duplex telegraphy
- (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 […]
- 1977, Australian Journal of Botany (volume 25, page 462)
Antonyms
- (bidirectional): simplex (unidirectional)
Hyponyms
(bidirectional):
- full duplex
- half-duplex
- semiduplex
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
duplex (plural duplexes)
- (US) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (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 […]
- 1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin (page 16)
Related terms
Translations
See also
Verb
duplex (third-person singular simple present duplexes, present participle duplexing, simple past and past participle duplexed)
- To make duplex.
- To make into a duplex.
- (juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.
Related terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duplex, see above.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dy.pl?ks/
Noun
duplex m (plural duplex)
- a link between two points, such as a cable or a wire
- 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)
- 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
- twofold, double
- bipartite, cloven
- 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)
- duplex
Declension
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