multiplex
A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or…A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or at different times.
» We decided to catch a late showing at the new multiplex downtown.
Meaning
5 sensesA building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or at different times.
a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building
A cineplex.
A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.
Examples
3 sentencesWe decided to catch a late showing at the new multiplex downtown.
The lab uses a multiplex test to screen for several viruses in a single blood sample.
The network techs had to reconfigure how they multiplex audio and video signals for the live stream.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.Learned borrowing from Latin multiplex, from multi- + -plex.
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Forms
plural: multiplexes| Singular | multiplex |
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