multiplex

From multi- +‎ -plex or multi- +‎ complex.

multiplex (not comparable)

1. Comprising several interleaved parts.
2. (botany) Having petals lying in folds over each other.
3. (medicine) Having multiple members with a particular condition.
   • 2009, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, page 951:

     Supporting an additive model, simplex families […] have less impairment than multiplex families (those with two or more individuals affected) in language processing.

multiplex (plural multiplexes)

1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
2. (by extension) A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses.
3. (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.

multiplex (third-person singular simple present multiplexes, present participle multiplexing, simple past and past participle multiplexed)

1. To interleave several activities
2. (computing) To combine several signals into a single signal
3. (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.

multus (“many, much”) + -plex (“-fold”), from plecto.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmul.ti.pleks/, [ˈmʊɫ.tɪ.pɫɛks]

multiplex (genitive multiplicis); third declension

1. having many folds
2. manifold, numerous
3. complex

Third declension.

• multiplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• multiplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• multiplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette