German

Noun

Simplex m ‎(genitive Simplex or Simplexes, plural Simplicia or Simplizia or Simplexe or Simplizes)

1. (linguistics) a simplex, a simple word without affixes, though in German it may have morphemes of inflection
   • 2001, Horst Haider Munske, Nils Århammar, Handbuch des Friesischen, ISBN 348473048X, page 449:

     Es sind, wie die Simplizia, überwiegend naturräumliche Stellenbezeichnungen (-berg, -brook, -horst) und nur wenige Heim- / Haus-Synonyme (-stede, -bur).

2. (geometry) a simplex (an analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron)
   • 2009, Erich Ossa, Topologie, second edition, page 92:

     Die gewünschte Homotopie lässt sich jedoch bewerkstelligen, wenn die Simplizes von X zunächst genügend fein unterteilt werden.

   • 2009, Hans Freudenthal, Selecta, ISBN 978-3-03719-058-6, page 582:

     Wir bemerken weiter: Die Simplexe von Z(T) sind ähnlich der zu T konjugierten.

English

Adjective

simplex ‎(not comparable)

1. Single, simple; not complex.
2. (telecommunications) unidirectional

Antonyms

• (simple): complex
• (unidirectional): duplex (bidirectional)

Coordinate terms

(unidirectional):

• half-duplex
• full-duplex

Translations

Noun

simplex ‎(plural simplexes or simplices)

1. (geometry, algebraic topology) An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space.
2. (linguistics) A simple word, one without affixes.
   • 1978, Helga Harries-Delisle, Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences, in Universals of Human Language, edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, ISBN 0804709696, page 460:

     The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.

Derived terms

• simplicial

See also

• complex

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From the same root as semel + plicō ‎(“I fold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsim.pleks/

Adjective

simplex m, f, n ‎(genitive simplicis); third declension

1. single
2. simple, plain, uncompounded
3. pure, unmixed
4. frank, open, without guile

Inflection

Third declension.

• comparative: simplicior, superlative: simplicissimus

Derived terms

• simplicābilis
• simplicitās
• simpliciter

Related terms

• duplex
• simplus
• triplex
• quadruplex

Descendants

References

• simplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• simplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SIMPLEX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “simplex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.