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DUPLEX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
Synonyms:
duplex; duplex apartment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("duplex" is a kind of...):
apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A house with two units sharing a common wall
Synonyms:
duplex; duplex house; semidetached house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("duplex" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
Example:
duplex telephony
Classified under:
Similar:
bidirectional (reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions)
Domain category:
telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used technically of a device or process) having two parts
Example:
a duplex transaction
Classified under:
Similar:
multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they duplex ... he / she / it duplexes
Past simple: duplexed
Past participle: duplexed
-ing form: duplexing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change into a duplex
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "duplex" is one way to...):
convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
A duplex of DNA is formed by two complementary chains that are arranged in an anti-parallel manner.
(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, this agent acts as a coupling reagent for phosphoramidate or pyrophosphate inter-nucleotide bonds in DNA duplexes.
(Cyanogen Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)
At the DNA replication fork, a DNA helicase (DnaB or MCM complex) precedes the DNA synthetic machinery and unwinds the duplex parental DNA in cooperation with the SSB or RPA.
(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Although the precise mode of action of pentamidine is unclear, it appears to interact directly with the pathogen genome by binding to AT-rich regions of duplex DNA and the minor groove of DNA, thereby interfering with DNA replication.
(Pentamidine, NCI Thesaurus)
Any DNA sequence rearrangement that results in the exchange of the original sequence with noncomplementary bases, resulting in a mismatched DNA duplex.
(Base Pair Miscoding, NCI Thesaurus)
A DNA structure formed between similarly oriented, homologous DNA double strands in which a single strand from one duplex crosses over to base pair with the complimentary strand on the other duplex, generating a cruciform structure.
(Holliday Junction, NCI Thesaurus)
