different between multiplex vs channelize

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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.

Noun

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.
4. (television) a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium

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Verb

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 one.
3. (transitive) To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
4. (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multiplex, after triplex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l.ti?pl?ks/
• Hyphenation: mul?ti?plex

Noun

multiplex n (uncountable)

1. plywood consisting of more than three veneers

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mul.ti.pleks/, [?m???t??p???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mul.ti.pleks/, [?mul?t?ipl?ks]

Adjective

multiplex (genitive multiplicis, adverb multipliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

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

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

References

• 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

Romanian

Etymology

From French multiplex.

Adjective

multiplex m or n (feminine singular multiplex?, masculine plural multiplec?i, feminine and neuter plural multiplexe)

1. multiplex

Declension

English

Etymology

channel +? -ize

Verb

channelize (third-person singular simple present channelizes, present participle channelizing, simple past and past participle channelized)

1. To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
2. (transitive) To transmit through a channel.
3. (transitive) To multiplex (messages) through a single line.
4. (transitive) To direct into a specific course or pathway; to channel.
   • 1978, US Department of Transportation, Traffic control for street and highway construction and maintenance operations

     It is particularly confusing when the motorist is channelized across the highway centerline. For long-term closures conflicting pavement markings must be removed or obliterated before relaning the roadway.

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Derived terms

• channelizer