multiplex
English
Adjective
multiplex (not comparable)
- Comprising several interleaved parts.
- (botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
- (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)
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- (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
- (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
- (television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium
Translations
Verb
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 one.
- (transitive) To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
- (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.
Derived terms
Translations
to combine signals
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmʏl.tiˌplɛks/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧plex
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmʊɫ̪t̪ɪpɫ̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmul̪t̪ipleks]
Adjective
multiplex (genitive multiplicis, adverb multipliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
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
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.
Romanian
Adjective
multiplex m or n (feminine singular multiplexă, masculine plural multiplecși, feminine and neuter plural multiplexe)
Declension
Declension of multiplex
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
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