duplex means double or double, a term commonly used to refer to the apartment or house with two floors, connected by a ladder built inside.
Just as there are the duplex apartments, it is also common to build houses or triplex apartments. In this case, the houses are characterized by having three floors, which are interconnected by a private staircase or elevator.
Normally, both duplex and triplex are properties of high commercial value.
Learn more about the meaning of triplex.
This English expression also applies to something that duplicates itself in functions, or that operates in two modes or two different systems.
One duplex refrigerator, for example, has two doors, vertically or horizontally, with a compartment for the freezer (Freezer) and the other only to refrigeration.
Full duplex and Half duplex
Duplex also refers to the communication system that connects two devices, a transmitter and a receiver, with simultaneous and bidirectional transmission (in both directions), that is, full duplex.
There is still the system half duplex half duplex, or semi duplex that works in walkie talkies and it has bidirectional transmission, but not simultaneous. Information can only be transmitted in one direction at a time, while one transmits the other receives and vice versa.
