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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
simplex
 
SYLLABICATION:sim·plex
PRONUNCIATION:  smplks
ADJECTIVE:1. Consisting of or marked by only one part or element. 2. Of or relating to a telecommunications system in which only one message can be sent in either direction at one time.
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. sim·plex·es or sim·pli·ces (-pl-sz)
1. Mathematics A Euclidean geometric spatial element having the minimum number of boundary points, such as a line segment in one-dimensional space, a triangle in two-dimensional space, or a tetrahedron in three-dimensional space. 2. Linguistics A word that has no affixes and is not part of a compound; a simple word.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin, simple. See sem-1 in Appendix I.
 
 
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