quadruplex

== English == === Etymology === From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- +‎ -plex. === Adjective === quadruplex (not comparable) Having four components. Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously. Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === quadruplex (countable and uncountable, plural quadruplexes) (countable) A quadruplex system. (uncountable) Clipping of quadruplex videotape, an early type of videotape with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape. ==== Derived terms ==== G-quadruplex ==== Translations ==== === Verb === quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed) (transitive) To make quadruplex. == Latin == === Etymology === From quattuor (“four”) + -plex (“-fold”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷa.drʊ.pɫɛks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷaː.dru.pleks] === Adjective === quadruplex (genitive quadruplicis, adverb quadrupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective fourfold, quadruple ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. === Noun === quadruplex n (genitive quadruplicis); third declension a fourfold amount ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === Related terms === quadruplicātiō quadruplicātō quadruplicō quadruplō quadruplus === Descendants === → English: quadruplex → Italian: quadruplice → Sicilian: quatrùprici === References === “quadruplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “quadruplex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “quadruplex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.