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noun

duplex n.

Something which is duplex; used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units.

(Biology, Genetics) A double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule. See deoxyribonucleic acid.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... miraculously, there were they, real New Yorkers; or as real and as New York as any one can be who is living in a studio apartment (duplex) that has been rented (furnished) from a lady who turned out to be ...

— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... and frequent wanderings at last found him developing his ideas in Boston. He brought out duplex telegraphy and suggested a printing telegraph for the use of gold and stock quotations. His ability becoming so apparent he was retained by wealthy men in New York at a high salary. In 1876 he removed to Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he fitted up an ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... a 12mo. copy of Liber Psalmorum Davidis. Tralatio Duplex Vetus et Nova. It contains also the Songs of Moses, Deborah, etc., with annotations. In the title-page, the new translation is said to be that of Pagnini. It was printed by Robert Stephens, and is dated on the title-page "1556," and in ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 • Various

... and water spaces were connected by outside pipes to secure a circulation of the water up through the sections and down through the external pipes. In the same year, John M'Curdy of New York, built a "Duplex Steam Generator" of "tubes of wrought or cast iron or other material" arranged in several horizontal rows, connected together alternately at the front and rear by return bends. In the tubes below the water line were placed ...

— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... its rococo climax of the twelve-thousand-dollar-a-year and twelve-story-high apartment-house de luxe and duplex, and six baths divided by fourteen rooms is equal to solid-marble comfort, Elsinore Court, the neurotic Prince of Denmark and Controversy done in gilt mosaics all over the foyer, juts above the sky-line, and from the convex, ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

Words linked to "Duplex" : duplex apartment, apartment, multiple, convert, flat, telecom, house