Nounnoun sense 1 (“generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension”) was apparentlycoined by the Dutch mathematicianPieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913) as a short version ofSimplicissimum inMehrdimensionale Geometrie (in German, 1902).[4] (In his pioneering works onalgebraic topology, the French mathematicianHenri Poincaré (1854–1912) had previously introduced the concept, but not the actual termsimplex.)[5]
having a single structure; not composite or complex—seeundivided,unitary
of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris; of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation
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of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time—see alsounidirectional
The question is: is 139.[“PriexalVanja. ‘arrived Vanya’”] asimplex or is it a cleft structure in which all 'superfluous' constituents were deleted.[…] The only indication that 139. is asimplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.
A modified version of a paper published inWorking Papers on Language Universals (November 1973), number 12, pages 85–144.
(originally and chiefly US) Anapartment (or, sometimes, anothertype ofproperty) having only onefloor orstorey; a single-storey property.
generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension
^P[ieter] H[endrik] Schoute (1902), “Grundbegriffe [Basic Concepts]”, inMehrdimensionale Geometrie [Multidimensional Geometry] (Sammlung Schubert; XXXV) (in German), 1st part (Die linearen Räume[The Linear Spaces]), Leipzig, Saxony:G[eorg] J[oachim] Göschen’sche Verlagshandlung,→OCLC, paragraph 8,page10: “Wir ziehen de namen ‚Simplicissimum‘ das viel kürzereSimplex vor und deuten das Simplex mit Eckpunkten mittels des Symboles an. ―We prefer the name ‘simplicissimum’ to the much shortersimplex and indicate the simplex with vertices using the symbol.”
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “-sem-, sim-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page553
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “-plex”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page473
“simplex”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"simplex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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