multiplex vs simple

multiplex

noun
  • A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times. 

  • 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 

adj
  • Having multiple members with a particular condition. 

  • Having petals lying in folds over each other. 

  • Comprising several interleaved parts. 

verb
  • To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex. 

  • To combine several signals into one. 

  • To make a multiplex throw. 

  • To interleave several activities. 

simple

noun
  • Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom. 

  • A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant. 

  • A feast which is not a double or a semidouble. 

  • A drawloom. 

  • A simple or atomic proposition. 

adj
  • Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound. 

  • Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded. 

  • Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank. 

  • Without ornamentation; plain. 

  • Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward. 

  • Of a group: having no normal subgroup. 

  • Homogenous. 

  • Feeble-minded; foolish. 

  • Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. 

  • Not compound, but possibly lobed. 

  • Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added. 

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