multiplex
IPA: mˈʌɫtipɫɛks
noun
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- (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
- (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.
verb
- 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.
adjective
- Comprising several interleaved parts.
- (botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
- (medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
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Examples of "multiplex" in Sentences
- It really isn't on the multiplex.
- Recommended for the multiplex junta.
- A related component is the multiplexer.
- Automation and the rise of the multiplex.
- A microarray is a multiplex lab on a chip.
- A fourth multiplex was launched in the spring.
- These multiplex the voice channels using time division multiplex.
- In early 2005, Multiplex became the target of an extortion conspiracy.
- After the analogue closedown, a fourth multiplex named MUX E was launched.
- This is Optical add drop multiplexer, and the link is to add drop multiplexer.