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Involving or denoting a connection between two endpoints, either physical or logical, over which data may travel in both directions, but not both simultaneously. An important parameter of a half-duplex connection is the turnaround time, i.e. the time it takes to reverse the roles of sender and receiver. See also duplex, simplex.
From: half duplex in A Dictionary of Computing »
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