duplexes

Noun

duplex (plural duplexes or duplices)

1. (Australia, Canada, US) A house made up of two dwelling units.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   semi-detached house

2. (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
3. A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
4. A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
5. A double-stranded polynucleotide.
6. A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
   • 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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