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How to use duplex in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Duplex means having two floors. Example: “Duplex stainless steels have been classified according to the first period (1930–1960) and second period (1960–1990).”

Examples of duplex by meaning

adjectiveOf stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.

  • Duplex stainless steels have been classified according to the first period (1930–1960) and second period (1960–1990).2010, Harold M. Cobb, The History of Stainless Steel, Materials Park, O.H.: ASM International, →ISBN, page 189

adjectiveHaving horizons with contrasting textures.

  • Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic.1977, Australian Journal of Botany, volume 25, page 462

nounA 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

nounA 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

More sentences with duplex

  • Aunt Charlie, Dreya, and Manny moved here a year ago when they got evicted from their duplex.2010, Nikki Carter, chapter 1, in Not a Good Look (A Fab Life Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN…. From the entry suck lemons
  • The residential sector, which covers most of the territory, includes duplexes, triplexes, quintuplexes and bungalows.2006, Janet Auty-Carlisle, Kai Hansen, “Areas”, in Relocation 101: Focus on Montréal, 2nd edition, Canadian Relocation Systems, →ISBN…. From the entry quintuplex
  • Transcription begins at some site in the DNA duplex and ends at some other point.2001, Richard Kowles, Solving Problems in Genetics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 315. From the entry transcription
  • The processed miRNA duplex is 2’-O methylated and polyuridylated at the 3’-terminal nucleotide by a dsRNA methylase HEN1.2016 January 23, “Unveiling the Micronome of Cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry polyuridylated
  • This complex unwinds duplex DNA while synthesizing pentaribonucleotide RNA primers for use by the lagging strand polymerase (gp43).2015, Erin Noble et al., “Coordinated DNA Replication by the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI. From the entry pentaribonucleotide
  • As indicated, echoplexing is often confused with the duplexes.1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy. From the entry echoplex
  • The vineyards in both Districts are on various duplex soils: red-brown earths, solodized-solonetz and solodic soils, yellow podzolic soils and soloths.1983, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, volume 23. From the entry soloth
  • The duplexing circuits are located between the interrogator and the responsor at the common feed point to the antenna transmission line.1947, Caldwell-Clements' Tele-Tech - Volume 6, page 64. From the entry responsor
  • Linear molecules containing the same sequences are not bound, and one X-junction successfully competes with another for binding whereas linear duplexes do not compete.1998, Jac A. Nickoloff, Merl F. Hoekstra, DNA Damage and Repair: Volume I: DNA Repair in Prokaryotes and Lower Eukaryotes, page 197. From the entry X-junction
  • Hypochromicity studies have shown that these duplices are less stable than either the totally complementary duplex or those containing A.C. and G.T mismatches.1984, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CSA, page 2. From the entry duplices
  • The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.1960, Brian Moore, chapter 1, in The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 4. From the entry off keel
  • Mirella had a story about a duplex in a housing development of identical duplexes, exurban Cleveland, cornfields on one side and an expressway on the other.2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 84. From the entry exurban
  • Presumably, it correlates with different geometry of DNA and RNA duplexes and in consequence different hydrogen bonds and base stacking interactions including inter- and intrastranded interactions.2015 November 19, “Structural Aspects of the Antiparallel and Parallel Duplexes Formed by DNA, 2’-O-Methyl RNA and RNA Oligonucleotides”…. From the entry intrastranded
  • These polymer chains are not typically found as paired duplices, but rather as complex forms that comprise paired segments and loops that are often stabilized by metal ions.2002, Douglas T. Gjerde, Christopher P. Hanna, David Hornby, DNA Chromatography, Wiley-VCH, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry duplices
  • Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together—into one mammoth unit by green tractor beams and red pressors.1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 560. From the entry pressor beam

Meaning of duplex

  1. adjective Having two floors.
  2. adjective Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
  3. adjective Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.

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Questions about duplex in a sentence

How do you use duplex in a sentence?
Duplex is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Duplex stainless steels have been classified according to the first period (1930–1960) and second period (1960–1990).”
What is a short sentence with duplex?
“Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic.”
What does duplex mean?
Duplex means having two floors.

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