Multiplex vs. Duplex — What's the Difference?

Relating to, having, or consisting of multiple elements or parts

Twofold; double.

Relating to or being a system of simultaneous communication of two or more messages on the same wire or radio channel.

Having two apartments, divisions, or floors.

A multiplex communication system.

Relating to or being a single assembly of machinery having two identical units that are capable of operating simultaneously or independently.

A building having a number of separate movie theaters that are usually accessed from a central lobby.

(Electronics) Of or relating to a communications mode, as in a telephone system, that provides simultaneous transmission and reception in both directions.

A dwelling with multiple separate units.

A house divided into two living units or residences, usually having separate entrances.

To send messages or signals simultaneously using a multiplex system.

A duplex apartment.

To send simultaneously using a multiplex system.

Something, such as a communications system, that is duplex.

Comprising several interleaved parts.

Double, made up of two parts.

(botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.

(architecture) Having two floors

(medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.

(architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, apartments

A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.

(telecommunications) Bidirectional in two directions.

(by extension) cinema multiplex; A large {{en}} comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses, showing rooms.

(soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.

(juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.

A house made up of two dwelling units.

(television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium

(US) A dwelling unit with two floors

To interleave several activities.

(philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.

(computing) To combine several signals into one.

(juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.

(transitive) To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.

(biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.

To make a multiplex throw.

(geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.

Manifold; multiple.

To make duplex.

Communicates two or more signals over a common channel

To make into a duplex.

Many and varied; having many features or forms;

To make a series of duplex throws.

Having many parts or aspects;

Double; twofold.

Organized so that data may be transmitted in two opposite directions over the same channel; - of communications channels, such as data transfer lines between computers.

To arrange, as a telegraph line, so that two messages may be transmitted simultaneously; to equip with a duplex telegraphic outfit.

Something which is duplex; - used mostly in reference to a living unit, such as an apartment, in a building having two similar living units.

A double-stranded region in a nucleic acid molecule. See deoxyribonucleic acid.

A house with two units sharing a common wall

An apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase

(used technically of a device or process) having two parts;

Allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously;