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adjective

having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.

manifold; multiple: the multiplex opportunities in high technology.

Telecommunications. of, pertaining to, or using equipment permitting the simultaneous transmission of two or more trains of signals or messages over a single channel.

verb (used with object)

Telecommunications.

to arrange (a circuit) for use by multiplex telegraphy.

to transmit (two or more signals or messages) by a multiplex system, circuit, or the like.

verb (used without object)

to send several messages or signals simultaneously, as by multiplex telegraphy.

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noun

a multiplex electronics system.

(in map making) a stereoscopic device that makes it possible to view pairs of aerial photographs in three dimensions.

Also called multiplex cinema, multiplex theater. a group of two or more motion-picture theaters on the same site or in the same building, especially a cluster of adjoining theaters.

Origin:
1550–60; < Latin; see multi-, -plex

Related forms

mul·ti·plex·er, mul·ti·plex·or, noun

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multiplex (ˈmʌltɪˌplɛks)

—n
1.	telecomm
	a. the use of a common communications channel for sending two or more messages or signals. In frequency-division multiplex the frequency band transmitted by the common channel is split into narrower bands each of which constitutes a distinct channel. In time-division multiplex different channels are established by intermittent connections to the common channel
	b. (as modifier): a multiplex transmitter
2.	a. a purpose-built complex containing a number of cinemas and usually a restaurant or bar
	b. (as modifier): a multiplex cinema

—*adj*
3.	designating a method of map-making using three cameras to produce a stereoscopic effect
4.	a less common word for multiple

—vb
5.	to send (messages or signals) or (of messages or signals) be sent by multiplex

[C16: from Latin: having many folds, from multi- + plicāre to fold]

'multiplexer

—n

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multiplex

1550s, in mathematics, from L. multiplex, from comb. form of multus (see multi-) + plex "fold," from plicare (see ply (v.)).

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"An honest appraisal of the respective pleasures derived from theater and cinema, at least as to what is less intellectual and more direct about them, forces us to admit that the delight we experience at the end of a play has a more uplifting, a nobler, one might perhaps say a more moral, effect than the satisfaction which follows a good film. We seem to come away with a better conscience. In a certain sense it is as if for the man in the audience all theater is "Corneillian." From this point of view one could say that in the best films something is missing. It is as if a certain inevitable lowering of the voltage, some mysterious aesthetic short circuit, deprived us in the cinema of a certain tension which is a definite part of theater. No matter how slight this difference it undoubtedly exists, even between the worst charity production in the theater and the most brilliant of Olivier's film adaptations."

-André Bazin

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