multiplex

Meaning

Adj

1. Comprising several interleaved parts.
2. Having petals lying in folds over each other.
3. Having multiple members with a particular condition.

Noun

1. A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
2. Ellipsis of cinema multiplex.; A large cinema complex comprising many (typically more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres or houses, showing rooms.
3. throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
4. a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium

Verb

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

Etymology

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