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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An epithet applied to the simultaneous transmission of telegraph messages along the same wire in opposite directions: as, contraplex telegraphy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Teleg.) Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective telegraphy Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.

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