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simplexadj
(dated) Having asingle structure; notcomposite orcomplex;undivided,unitary. (anatomy,historical) Of aneye: (supposedly) havingpigment on only theposterior surface of theiris and not theanterior surface, and thusappearing blue; this was laterfound to beinaccurate, aseye colour is due to theamount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eyepigmentation:present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of aperson: having eyes with thisform of pigmentation. (computing,telecommunications) Of acircuit ordevice:involving signals whichtravel inone direction at atime;unidirectional. (genetics) Of apolyploid organism: having onedominant allele at agiven locus on allhomologous chromosomes. Coordinate terms:duplex,nulliplex,triplex (archaic orobsolete)Synonym ofheterozygous(“of an organism: havingtwo different alleles in a givengene”) (linguistics) Of aword: having no (derivational)affixes;simple,monomorphemic,uncompounded. (originally and chieflyUS) Of anapartment (or, sometimes, anothertype ofproperty): having only onefloor orstorey; single-storey. simplexn (algebraic topology,geometry) Ageneralization of atriangle ortetrahedron to anarbitrary dimension, the generalization being thesimplest possible convex polytope for agiven dimension; moreaccurately, theconvex hull of $n+1$ linearly independent points in $n {\displaystyle n}$ -dimensional space. (linguistics) Aword which is notcompound andcontains noderivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usuallydisregarded); amonomorphemic word. (grammar,archaic)In fullsimplex sentence: intransformational grammar: asimple sentence which is theproduct of a fewtransformations; akernel sentence. (originally and chieflyUS) Anapartment (or, sometimes, anothertype ofproperty) having only onefloor orstorey; a single-storey property. TheDutch mathematician Pieter Hendrik Schoute, who is thought to have coined the mathematical sense of the word in German, died on this day in 1913.
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