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) Ellipsis of cinema multiplex.; A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses, showing rooms.

   Synonyms: cinema multiplex, cinema complex, cineplex

3. (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. (television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium

Translations

large cinema complex

• Bulgarian: мултиплекс m (multipleks)
• Czech: multikino (cs) n
• 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

• demultiplex
• multiplexer
• multiplexor
• remultiplex

 

Translations

to combine signals

• Bulgarian: комбинирам (bg) (kombiniram)
• 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
• monoplex
• octuplex
• pentaplex
• plex
• quadruplex
• simplex
• triplex
• uniplex

 

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multiplex, after triplex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʏl.tiˌplɛks/

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• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧plex

Noun

multiplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of more than three veneers

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmʊɫ̪t̪ɪpɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmul̪t̪ipleks]

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

Descendants

• Catalan: múltiplex
• French: multiplex
• → Dutch: multiplex
• Galician: multíplice, múltiplex
• Italian: multiplex
• Portuguese: multíplex
• Spanish: multíplice

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From French multiplex.

Adjective

multiplex m or n (feminine singular multiplexă, masculine plural multiplecși, feminine and neuter plural multiplexe)

1. multiplex

Declension

Declension of multiplex

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	multiplex		multiplexă	multiplecși	multiplexe
	definite	multiplexul		multiplexa	multiplecșii	multiplexele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	multiplex		multiplexe	multiplecși	multiplexe
	definite	multiplexului		multiplexei	multiplecșilor	multiplexelor