multiplex

Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌl.tiˌplɛks/

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• Rhymes: -ʌltiplɛks
• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧plex

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.

multiplex (plural multiplexes)

1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
2. A cineplex.
3. (juggling) A 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.
5. A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.

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.

• “multiplex”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “multiplex, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “multiplex, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “multiplex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Latin multiplex, after triplex.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʏl.tiˌplɛks/

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• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧plex

multiplex n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. plywood consisting of more than three veneers

From multi- + -plex.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmʊɫ.tɪ.pɫɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmul.ti.pleks]

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

1. having many folds
2. manifold, numerous
3. complex
4. (mathematics) multiple
   • Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 3.6.5:

     Multiplex numerus est, qui habet in se minorem numerum bis, aut ter, aut quater, aut multipliciter

     A multiple number has a smaller number within itself twice, or thrice, or four times, or many times.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• “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.

Borrowed from French multiplex.

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

1. multiplex