simplex — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.

   Gebrauch

   • veraltend
   • not-comparable

   Synonyme

   monoplexuniplex

   Antonyme

   complex

2. 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.

   Gebrauch

   • historisch
   • not-comparable

   Antonyme

   duplex

3. Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Antonyme

   bidirectionalduplex

4. Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

5. Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
   • not-comparable
   • außer Gebrauch

6. Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Antonyme

   polymorphemic

7. Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

Substantiv

1. 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.

2. A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.

   Beispiele

   The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not.

3. In full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   The question is: is 139. [“Priexal Vanja. ‘arrived Vanya’”] a simplex or is it a cleft structure in which all 'superfluous' constituents were deleted. […] The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.

4. An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.

Adjektiv

1. allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time

   Beispiele

   simplex system

2. having only one part or element

   Beispiele

   a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound — like ‘boy’ compared with ‘boyish’ or ‘house’ compared with ‘houseboat’