- fourfold
- designating or of a former system of telegraphy in which four messages could be sent simultaneously over one wire, two in either direction
Origin of quadruplex
Classical Latin from quadru- (see quadruped) + -plex, -fold: see duplexquadruplex
quad·ru·plexWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more quadruplex, superlative most quadruplex)
- Having four components.
- The child's toy was quadruplex and had four moving parts.
- Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
Origin
From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple"), from quattuor (“four") + plico (“fold")
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