Simplex vs Simpled - What's the difference?

simplex | simpled |

As an adjective simplex

is single, simple; not complex.

As a noun simplex

is an analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space.

As a verb simpled is

past tense of simple.

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

simpled

English

Verb

(head)

(simple)

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simple

English

Adjective

(er)

Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.

*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

*2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 167,

*:There is no simple way to define precisely a complex arrangement of parts, however homely the object may appear to be.

Without ornamentation; plain.

Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.

* (ca.1576-1634)

*:Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them.

*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue?

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:To be simple is to be great.

Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.

Trivial; insignificant.

*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book X:

*:‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’

Feeble-minded; foolish.

Structurally uncomplicated.

#(lb) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.

#(lb) Of a group: having no normal subgroup.

#(lb) Not compound, but possibly lobed.

#(lb) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.

#(lb) Homogenous.

(lb) Mere; not other than; being only.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:A medicinewhose simple touch / Is powerful to araise King Pepin.

Synonyms

* (consisting of a single part or aspect) onefold * (having few parts or features) plain * See also

Antonyms

* (having few parts or features) complex, compound, complicated * (uncomplicated) subtle

Derived terms

* fee simple * future simple * oversimple * past simple * plain and simple * present simple * pure and simple * simple beam * simple connectivity * simple contract * simple dislocation * simple equation * simple extension * simple eye * simple fraction * simple fracture * simple fruit * simple function * simple future * simple group * simple harmonic motion * simple-hearted * simple interest * simple leaf * simple linear regression * simple machine * simple mastectomy * simple microscope * simple-minded * simple past * simple pendulum * simple pistil * simple pole * simple present * simple protein * simple regression * simple sentence * Simple Simon * simple sugar * simple syrup * simple time * simple trust * simplehead * simpleness * simpless * simplex * simply * single * simplicity * simpleton

Noun

(en noun)

(medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.

*, II.37:

*:I know there are some simples , which in operation are moistening and some drying.

*Sir W. Temple

*:What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.

(obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.

(logic) A simple or atomic proposition.

(obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.

*Shakespeare

*:compounded of many simples

(weaving) A drawloom.

(weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.

(Roman Catholic) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Verb

(simpl)

(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.

Derived terms

* simpler * simplist * simplify

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