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Quadruplex meaning
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.
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The quadruplex was evacuated and no one was injured in the fire, said Montreal police spokesperson Véronique Comtois.
The fire destroyed a quadruplex off Millard Lee Lane in Hamilton County this morning.
April A reel of 2-inch quadruplex videotape compared with a modern-day miniDV videocassette.
Aronstein and Piccirillo 1996, p. 21. To counter the tendency to depart from controlled flight—and avoid the need for constant trim inputs by the pilot, the F-16 has a quadruplex (four-channel) fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control system (FLCS).
For this reason, most fly-by-wire systems incorporate either redundant computers (triplex, quadruplex etc.), some kind of mechanical or hydraulic backup or a combination of both.
Recent evidence also indicates that several genes (including the proto-oncogene c-myc ) have G-quadruplex motifs as potential regulatory signals.
The programmes were recorded onto 2 inch Quadruplex videotape.