simplex

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adjective

1.
(dated, not comparable)Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
Đồng nghĩa: monoplex, uniplex
2.
(historical, not comparable)(anatomy, historical) 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.
3.
(not comparable)(computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
4.
(not comparable)Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
5.
(archaic, not comparable, obsolete)Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).
Đồng nghĩa: heterozygous
6.
(not comparable)(linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
7.
(not comparable)(originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

simplexessimplicessimplicia

1.
(algebraic topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given 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.
The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not.
3.
(archaic)In full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence.
4.
(originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.

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Đồng nghĩa

monoplexuniplexheterozygous

Trái nghĩa

complexduplex bidirectionalpolymorphemic

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonsimplexsimplexitycrux simplexherpes simplex

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thumb|A set of walkie-talkies illustrates simplex (telecoms) wireless [[communication. Only one user can talk at a time while the other user listens, as the radio signal can only carry information in one direction.]]