Noun: duplex
| Singular | duplex |
| Plural | duplexes; duplices |
Sample Sentences
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The house had been renovated into a duplex and he’d put in a phone line. [2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 53:]
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In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex. [1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, page 16:]
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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 […] [1995, Robert D. Hatcher, Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problems, page 211:]
Nouns inflected like duplex
solar apex,
vile vortex,
subindex,
cosimplex,
striate cortex,
heat index,
Articulation Index,
cerebellar cortex,
demodex,
tab index,
body mass index,
juxtallocortex,
misery index,
hypersimplex,
paracortex,
orbital index,
card index,
narthex,
subcortex,
iodine index, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare the roots of διπλόος (diplóos, “double”); compare also πλέκω (plékō, “twist, braid”). By surface analysis, duo- + -plex. See: Latin Nouns '
duplex'.
Verbs referencing "duplex"
Finnish Nouns
dupleksi.