MEANING
To carry several signals or data streams through a shared transmission system while keeping them distinguishable.
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Words that belong together
- multiplex a signal
- multiplexed channel
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The station multiplexed several voice channels onto one link.
The equipment multiplexed the sensor streams.
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Word forms
- Base
- multiplex
- Past tense
- multiplexed
- Past participle
- multiplexed
- Present participle
- multiplexing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- multiplex
- Present continuous
- am/is/are multiplexing
- Present perfect
- have/has multiplexed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been multiplexing
- Past
- multiplexed
- Past continuous
- was/were multiplexing
- Past perfect
- had multiplexed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been multiplexing
- Future
- will multiplex
- Future continuous
- will be multiplexing
- Future perfect
- will have multiplexed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been multiplexing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: multiplex; multiplexes; multiplexed; multiplexed; multiplexing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: multiplexes.
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