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contraplex

contraplex adjective: of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.

Adjective

contraplex (not comparable)

  1. Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.

Origin of contraplex

From contra- + -plex.

Questions about contraplex

What does contraplex mean?
Contraplex means of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.
What part of speech is contraplex?
Contraplex is an adjective.

Words near contraplex in the dictionary

  1. contrapairs
  2. contraparallelogram
  3. contraparallelograms
  4. contrapasso
  5. contrapathologic
  6. contraplex
  7. contrapolar
  8. contraponend
  9. contrapose
  10. contraposed
  11. contraposes

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