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Simpler vs Simplex - What's the difference?

simpler | simplex |

As adjectives the difference between simpler and simplex

is that simpler is comparative of simple Less complicated or challenging while simplex is single, simple; not complex.

As nouns the difference between simpler and simplex

is that simpler is one who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs) while simplex is an analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space.

simpler

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (simple) Less complicated or challenging.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
  • * 1781 , , Miscellanies'', Essay VII, ''On the Linnæan System , page 273:
    • One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler , who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
  • * 1833 , William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself , page 48:
    • … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler' never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour ' simpler is very liable to.

    Synonyms

    * simplist

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    simplex

    English

    (wikipedia simplex)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Single, simple; not complex.
  • (telecommunications) unidirectional

    • Antonyms

    * (simple) complex * (unidirectional) duplex (bidirectional)

    Coordinate terms

    (unidirectional) * half-duplex * full-duplex

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1'' points in ''n -dimensional space.
  • (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