| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Half duplex | Art | In half duplex communication, the terminal transmits and receives data in separate, consecutive operations. (references) | |
| Half duplex | Business | A data transmission system that is capable of sending data in both directions over the same transmission line, but is limited to communicating in only one direction at a time. In alarm data transmission applications, some central stations may have the ability to interrupt the remote sending station. See also Full Duplex and Simplex. (references) | |
| Half duplex | Electrical Engineering | A method of communication between two points in which signals may be transmitted and received but in only one direction at a time, with or without an interrupt feature enabling the receiving station to interrupt the sending station. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Half duplex | Health | Transmissions [communications] which occur in only one direction at a time, but that direction can change. (references) | |
| Half duplex | Transportation | A transmission link providing both transmission and reception in both directions, but not simultaneously. (references) | |
| Half duplex (HDX) | Military | Transmission link that allows two-way communication, although transmission is possible only one way at a time. When the communications device at one end has completed its transmission, it must advise the device at the other end that it has finished and is ready to receive. Half-duplex transmission is analogous to a single-lane bridge on a two-way road. (references) | |
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