See Also: multiplex(dictionary)
multiplex 2, adjective(dictionary)
multiplex 1, noun(dictionary)
MULTIPLEX Group(finance)
xanthoma multiplex(medicine)
steatocystoma multiplex(medicine)
paramyoclonus multiplex(medicine)
myoclonus multiplex(medicine)
mononeuritis multiplex(medicine)
dysostosis multiplex(medicine)

multiplex (iou)



multiplex noun, adjective, & verb. LME.
[Latin, formed as MULTI- + -PLEX1.]
A. noun.
Math. = MULTIPLE noun 1. LME-L17.
Kantian Philosophy. A manifold (see MANIFOLD noun 2). M19.
Telecommunications. A multiplex system or signal. M20.
A complex of two or more cinemas on a single site. L20.
b. adjective.
Math. = MULTIPLE adjective 3. M16-L18.
Manifold; of many elements, having many interrelated features; multiple. L17.
T. L. Peacock The whole complex and multiplex detail of the noble science of dinner. F. W. Farrar Brief and scattered letters out of the multiplex correspondence of a varied life. T. Keneally I hated him in the core of each of my dazzling and multiplex cells.
b. Telecommunications. Designating or pertaining to the transmission of two or more independent signals or programmes (to be later separated and recovered) simultaneously over a single wire or channel. L19.
c. Medicine. = MULTIPLE adjective 1b. L19.
d. Designating a cinema complex incorporating two or more cinemas on a single site. L20.
C. verb trans. Telecommunications. Incorporate into a multiplex signal or system. E20.
multiplexer,
multiplexor nouns a device which multiplexes something M20.
multi'plexity noun the quality or condition of being multiplex, multiplex nature or structure; an instance of this: L20.