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quadruplex |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quadruplex \Quad"ru*plex\, a. [L., from quattuor four + plicare to fold.] Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. {Quadruplex system} (Electric Telegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: quadruplexA 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. (2000-04-02)
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