Townhouse vs. Duplex — What's the Difference?

A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors.

Twofold; double.

A row house, especially one designed as a single-family residence.

Having two apartments, divisions, or floors.

A residence in a city, especially in contrast to a residence in the country.

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

A row house or terraced house.

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

A house in an urban setting.

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

(dated) A town hall.

A duplex apartment.

A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.

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

Double, made up of two parts.

(architecture) Having two floors

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

(telecommunications) Bidirectional in two directions.

(soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.

A house made up of two dwelling units.

(US) A dwelling unit with two floors

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

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

(biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.

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

To make duplex.

To make into a duplex.

To make a series of duplex throws.

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;