multiplex

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ -plex or multi- +‎ complex.

Adjective

multiplex (not comparable)

1. Comprising several interleaved parts.
2. (botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
3. (medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
   • 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.

Noun

multiplex (plural multiplexes)

1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
2. (by extension) A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses.
3. (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.

Translations

large cinema complex

• French: complexe multisalles

• Italian: multisala (it) f

Verb

multiplex (third-person singular simple present multiplexes, present participle multiplexing, simple past and past participle multiplexed)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• demultiplex
• multiplexer

• multiplexor
• remultiplex

Translations

to combine signals

• Finnish: multipleksata, kanavoida
• French: multiplexer (fr)
• German: multiplexen

• Greek: πολυπλέκω (polypléko)
• Korean: 멀티플렉싱하다 (meoltipeulleksing-hada)
• Russian: совмеща́ть (ru) impf (sovmeščátʹ), совмести́ть (ru) pf (sovmestítʹ)

Related terms

→

• complex
• duplex
• hexaplex
• octuplex

• pentaplex
• quadruplex
• simplex
• triplex

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Latin

Etymology

multus (“many, much”) + -plex (“-fold”), from plecto.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmʊɫ̪.t̪ɪ.plɛks]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmul̪.t̪i.plɛks]

Adjective

multiplex (genitive multiplicis, adverb multipliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. having many folds
2. manifold, numerous
3. complex

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
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

• 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