multiplex

1. not comparableComprising several interleaved parts.
2. not comparablebiologyHaving petals lying in folds over each other.
3. not comparablemedicineHaving multiple members with a particular condition.

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

   2009, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology, page 951

plural multiplexes

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

present singular third person multiplexes · participle present multiplexing · participle past multiplexed · past multiplexed

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