quadruplex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
adj
Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
Example Sentences
- "The Western Union office is equipped with four quadruplexes, three duplexes and eleven single loops, besides special private loops in the Japanese and Russian suites, where direct communication will be maintained with the Atlantic cables at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland via Canso, and also with the Western Union offices in New York, whence the Japanese diplomatic matter will be sent via land lines to San Francisco over a direct circuit."