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Multiplexed vs Multiple - What's the difference?

multiplexed | multiple |

As a verb multiplexed

is (multiplex).

As an adjective multiple is

multiple.

multiplexed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (multiplex)

    • Anagrams

    *

    multiplex

    English

    (wikipedia multiplex)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Comprising several interleaved parts

    • Noun

    (es)
  • A building where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently
  • (by extension) A large cinema complex comprising of many (e.g. more than five, and often over ten) movie theatres
  • (juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.

    • Verb

  • To interleave several activities
  • (computing) To combine several signals into a single signal
  • (juggling) To make a multiplex throw.

    • Derived terms

    * multiplexor * multiplexer * demultiplex * remultiplex

    Related terms

    * simplex * complex * duplex * triplex * quadruplex * pentaplex * hexaplex * octuplex ----

    multiple

    English

    (wikipedia multiple)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (many) (l) (rare)

    Derived terms

    * Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple star

    Related terms

    * multi- * multiplier * multiplicity * multiply

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
  • * 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
  • (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
  • One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
  • A single individual who has multiple personalities.
  • * 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
    • I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
  • * 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
    • Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.

    Derived terms

    * common multiple * least common multiple