mul·ti·plex
ˈməl-tə-ˌpleks 
multiplexed; multiplexing; multiplexes
: to send (messages or signals) by a multiplex system
: to multiplex messages or signals
: a complex that houses several movie theaters
mul·ti·plex·er
variants
or multiplexor
plural -s
: a device for multiplex transmission of signals
Examples of multiplex in a Sentence
Adjective
would sometimes experience multiplex moods in the course of a single day
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Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Leading Indian multiplex chain PVR Inox will mount a week-long retrospective dedicated to director David Dhawan beginning May 8, screening five of his most celebrated Hindi-language comedies across 40 venues in 25 cities.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026
Perturb-seq provides genomic scale and resolution, allowing both multiplexed intervention in a genome as well as analysis of non-natural configurations for the first time.
—John Stuelpnagel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2020
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
All of them achieved their success without relying on prior audience awareness, yet would be the outliers at the modern box office, just as likely to debut on a streaming platform as in multiplexes.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 9 June 2026
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Adjective
Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.
—Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
Leading Indian multiplex chain PVR Inox will mount a week-long retrospective dedicated to director David Dhawan beginning May 8, screening five of his most celebrated Hindi-language comedies across 40 venues in 25 cities.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
The base die is a logic chip designed to multiplex the data—pack it into the limited number of wires that can fit across the millimeter-scale gap to the GPU.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2026
Perturb-seq provides genomic scale and resolution, allowing both multiplexed intervention in a genome as well as analysis of non-natural configurations for the first time.
—John Stuelpnagel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2020
Noun
In the span of two weeks this past May, two very different films arrived to upend the notion of will or won’t play big with multiplex audiences.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
All of them achieved their success without relying on prior audience awareness, yet would be the outliers at the modern box office, just as likely to debut on a streaming platform as in multiplexes.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 9 June 2026
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“Multiplex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiplex. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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multiplex
1 of 2 adjective
mul·ti·plex
ˈməl-tə-ˌpleks
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2
: being or relating to a system of transmitting several messages simultaneously on the same circuit or channel
multiplex
2 of 2 noun
: a complex that houses several movie theaters
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