Simplex Definition

sĭmplĕks
simplexes, simplices
adjective
Having only one part; not complex or compounded.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a system of telegraphy, telephony, etc. in which a signal can be transmitted in only one direction at a time.
Webster's New World

(telecommunications) Unidirectional.

Wiktionary
noun
An element or figure contained within a Euclidean space of a specified number of dimensions and having one more boundary point than the number of dimensions (Ex.: a simplex of zero dimensions is a point, of one dimension is a line segment, of two dimensions is a triangle and its interior, of three dimensions is a tetrahedron and its interior)
Webster's New World
A word that has no affixes and is not part of a compound; a simple word.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Simplex

Noun

Singular:
simplex
Plural:
simplexes

Origin of Simplex

  • Latin simple sem-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin

    From Wiktionary

Simplex Sentence Examples

  • At provincial synods archbishops wear the pretiosa, bishops the auriphrygiata, and mitred abbots the simplex.

  • Bishops alone, including of course the pope and his cardinals, are entitled to wear the pretiosa and auriphrygiata; the others wear the mitra simplex.

  • Each singular kind presents itself as a limit separating two kinds of inferior singularity; the cuspidal separates the crunodal and the acnodal, and these last separate from each other the complex and the simplex.

  • Most of us have had chickenpox, most of us have had herpes simplex 1 or 2 or both.

  • I would normally use either golden ratio or simplex optimization for functions where analytic derivatives are not available.

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