multiplex
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
multiplex (not comparable)
- Comprising several interleaved parts
- (medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
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2009, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, page 951:
- Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less impairment than multiplex families (those with two or more individuals affected) in language processing.
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Noun[edit]
multiplex (plural multiplexes)
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- (by extension) A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses.
- (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
Translations[edit]
large cinema complex
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Verb[edit]
multiplex (third-person singular simple present multiplexes, present participle multiplexing, simple past and past participle multiplexed)
- To interleave several activities
- (computing) To combine several signals into a single signal
- (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
to combine signals
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Related terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
multus (“many, much”) + -plex (“-fold”), from plecto.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
multiplex (genitive multiplicis); third declension
Inflection[edit]
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
nominative | multiplex | multiplicēs | multiplicia | ||
genitive | multiplicis | multiplicium | |||
dative | multiplicī | multiplicibus | |||
accusative | multiplicem | multiplex | multiplicēs | multiplicia | |
ablative | multiplicī | multiplicibus | |||
vocative | multiplex | multiplicēs | multiplicia |
References[edit]
- multiplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- multiplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- multiplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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