multiplex

A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.

Adjective

  1. Comprising several interleaved parts.
  2. Having petals lying in folds over each other.
  3. Having multiple members with a particular condition.
    • Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less impairment than multiplex families (those with two or more individuals affected) in language processing. - 2009, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.

Noun

  1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
  2. A cineplex.
  3. A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
  4. A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
  5. A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.

Forms

multiplexes

Verb

  1. To interleave several activities.
  2. To combine several signals into one.
  3. To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
  4. To make a multiplex throw.

Forms

multiplexes multiplexing multiplexed

Related

complex duplex hexaplex monoplex octuplex pentaplex plex quadruplex simplex triplex uniplex

Derived

arthrogryposis multiplex congenita demultiplex mononeuritis multiplex multiplexability multiplexable multiplexation multiplexer multiplexity multiplexor nonmultiplex remultiplex