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<communications> A kind of telegraphy system developed by Thomas A. Edison in the 1870s combining diplex and duplex communications to support simultaneous transmission of two messages in each direction.
(01 May 2000)
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| quadruplex | medical dictionary |
Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.
<physics> Quadruplex system, a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire.
Origin: L, from quattuor four + plicare to fold.
(01 Mar 1998)
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