multiplex

Meanings

1. Comprising several interleaved parts.
2. Having petals lying in folds over each other.
3. Having multiple members with a particular condition.

1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
2. A cineplex.
3. A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
5. A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.

1. To interleave several activities.
2. To combine several signals into one.
3. To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
4. To make a multiplex throw.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multi- Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.? Latin -plex Latin multiplexlbor. English multiplex Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.