Definition of "multiplex" in English

adjective

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

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

2. A cineplex.

3. (juggling) A 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.

5. A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.

verb

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.