Definitions from Wiktionary (simplex)
▸ adjective: (dated) Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
▸ adjective: (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.
▸ adjective: (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
▸ adjective: (genetics)
▸ adjective: Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
▸ adjective: (archaic or obsolete) Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”)
▸ adjective: (linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
▸ adjective: (originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
▸ noun: (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 linearly independent points in n-dimensional space.
▸ noun: (linguistics)
▸ noun: A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
▸ noun: (originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
▸ noun: (grammar, archaic) Short for simplex sentence (“in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence”).
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▸ adjective: (dated) Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
▸ adjective: (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.
▸ adjective: (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
▸ adjective: (genetics)
▸ adjective: Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
▸ adjective: (archaic or obsolete) Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”)
▸ adjective: (linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
▸ adjective: (originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
▸ noun: (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 linearly independent points in n-dimensional space.
▸ noun: (linguistics)
▸ noun: A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
▸ noun: (originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
▸ noun: (grammar, archaic) Short for simplex sentence (“in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence”).
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