simplex Synonyms & Antonyms
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Simplex as an Adjective
Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).
Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
Simplex as a Noun
A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.
A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not.
In full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence.
An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
Simplex in a Sentence
The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not.
Word Forms & Grammar
simplex (not comparable)
simplex (plural simplexes or (algebraic topology, geometry, linguistics) simplices or simplicia)
Words That Rhyme With Simplex
Origin of Simplex
Origin 1: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin simplex (“plain, simple; single”).[1][2] The first part, sim-, comes from Proto-Indo-European *sem-, *sm̥- (“one; together”). The second part, -plex, may be from *pleḱ- (“to weave”).
Origin 2: The noun is derived from the adjective.[1][3] The plural forms simplices and simplicia are learned borrowings from Latin simplicēs (masculine or feminine) and simplicia (neuter), respectively plural forms of simplex.
Origin 3: Noun sense 1 (“generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension”) was apparently coined by the Dutch mathematician Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913) as a short version of Simplicissimum in Mehrdimensionale Geometrie (in German, 1902).[4] (In his pioneering works on algebraic topology, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual term simplex.)[5]
Simplex: Key Facts
| Part of speech | adjective, noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | //ˈsɪmplɛks// |
| Syllables | 1 |
| Meaning | Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary |
| Plural | simplexes |
Simplex Pronunciation
You say simplex as //ˈsɪmplɛks//. It has 1 syllable.
