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quadruplex

quadruplex adjective: having four components. Also the clipping of quadruplex videotape.

Adjective

quadruplex (not comparable)

  1. Having four components.
  2. Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
  3. Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.

Noun

quadruplex (countable and uncountable, plural quadruplexes)

  1. (countable) A quadruplex system.
    • The Western Union office is equipped with four quadruplexes, three duplexes and eleven single loops, besides special private loops in the Japanese and Russian suites, where direct communication will be maintained with the Atlantic cables at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland via Canso, and also with the...1905 August 12, Electrical World and Engineer, volume XLVI, number 7, New York, N.Y., page 256, column 1

Verb

quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed)

  1. (transitive) To make quadruplex.

Also used as

quadruplex is also the clipping of quadruplex videotape.

Forms of quadruplex

Noun
pluralquadruplexes
Verb
third-person singular presentquadruplexes
present participlequadruplexing
past participlequadruplexed
pastquadruplexed

Origin of quadruplex

From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- + -plex.

Words formed from quadruplex

Questions about quadruplex

What does quadruplex mean?
Quadruplex means having four components.
What part of speech is quadruplex?
Quadruplex can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near quadruplex in the dictionary

  1. quadrupler
  2. quadruplers
  3. quadruples
  4. quadruplet
  5. quadruplets
  6. quadruplex
  7. quadruplexed
  8. quadruplexes
  9. quadruplexing
  10. quadruplicate
  11. quadruplicated

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