Multiplex
['mʌltɪpleks] or ['mʌltɪplɛks]
Definition
(noun.) a movie theater than has several different auditoriums in the same building.
(noun.) communicates two or more signals over a common channel.
(adj.) having many parts or aspects; 'the multiplex problem of drug abuse' .
Typed by Allan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Manifold; multiple.
Edited by Ahmed
Examples
- When you catch this fellow, you will find that he has one of these multiplex knives in his possession. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Edison made another notable contribution to multiplex telegraphy some years later in the Phonoplex. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Delany, a well-known inventor in the field of automatic and multiplex telegraphy, who at that time was a chief operator of the Franklin Telegraph Company at Philadelphia. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here he continued, moreover, his earlier work on the quadruplex, sextuplex, multiplex, and automatic telegraphs, and did his notable pioneer work in wireless telegraphy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Along somewhat similar lines Edison perfected an automatic telegraph, an harmonic multiplex telegraph, and an autographic telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Edited by Abraham