quadruplex

Meanings

Plural: quadruplexes

Adjective Satellite

having four units or components
- "quadruplex wire"

Adj

Having four components.
Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.

Noun

A quadruplex system.
Clipping of quadruplex videotape, an early type of videotape with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.

Verb

To make quadruplex.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- + -plex.

Synonyms

four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate

Scrabble Score: 29

quadruplex is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
quadruplex is not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
quadruplex is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

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