Meaning of Duplex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A house made up of two dwelling units.
   Australia, Canada, US
2. A dwelling unit with two floors.
   US
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.

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Examples

“The house had been renovated into a duplex and he’d put in a phone line.”

“In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex.”

“It has been noted, using a combination of surface geologic and seismic reflection data, that a duplex, although formed in response to movement of a thrust sheet, frequently arches the thrust sheet as the duplex is built by duplication of rocks beneath it […]”

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