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
Examples of multiplex in a Sentence
Adjective
would sometimes experience multiplex moods in the course of a single day
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Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
The theater at my Union Square multiplex last night was maybe 40 percent full, and judging from the bursts of applause and occasional jeers, the crowd was made up with as many Donald Trump fans as hate watchers.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Jan. 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
Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
Which wouldn’t be such a bad outcome for most documentary films — arguably moviedom’s most beleaguered genre due to diminishing audience appetite at the multiplex level.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
The multiplex multiscreen theaters were only just beginning to come into play, and the old movie palaces struggled some against that.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
The theater at my Union Square multiplex last night was maybe 40 percent full, and judging from the bursts of applause and occasional jeers, the crowd was made up with as many Donald Trump fans as hate watchers.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Jan. 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
Seize the ticket machines, the popcorn buckets, the box office receipts at every multiplex in America.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
Which wouldn’t be such a bad outcome for most documentary films — arguably moviedom’s most beleaguered genre due to diminishing audience appetite at the multiplex level.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Multiplex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiplex. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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multiplex
1 of 2 adjective
mul·ti·plex
ˈməl-tə-ˌpleks
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: 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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