multiplex

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ -plex.

Adjective

multiplex (not comparable)

1. Comprising several interleaved parts
2. (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 of many (e.g. 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 a single signal
3. (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.

Translations

to combine signals

• French: multiplexer (fr)
• German: multiplexen

• Greek: πολυπλέκω (polypléko)
• Korean: 멀티플렉싱하다 (meoltipeulleksing-hada)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• demultiplex
• multiplexer

• multiplexor
• remultiplex

Related terms

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/, [ˈmʊɫ.tɪ.pɫɛks]

Adjective

multiplex (genitive multiplicis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)