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multiplexing

multiplexing

1 7.0
A way to send several signals at the same time over one channel
  • noun
  • /ˈmʌltɪˌplɛksɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : multiplexión
  • In telecommunications, multiplexing is essential for enabling various data streams to share the same transmission medium.
  • multiplexing is used

And LTE, unlike CDMA, uses time division multiplexing.

Examples

  • Resource-management issues, such as scheduling and prioritization, become important when device multiplexing is used to consolidate different workloads onto the same physical hardware.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In order to distinguish between calcium-dependent signals and non-calcium-dependent artifacts, we used illumination multiplexing.

    Academic text (2016)

  • So this is special multiplexing because we are trading space for angle.

  • It leads to another very important multiplexing scheme for communications.

  • Statistical multiplexing efficiency can be very high compared to Type 1B.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Frame multiplexing allows the interface to be shared efficiently among several concurrent operations.

    Academic text (1996)

  • At the most basic level, decoupling enables time- and space-multiplexing of I/O devices, allowing multiple logical devices to be implemented by a smaller number of physical devices.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Mega-amplicons from the influenza virus were internally marked with these dual-barcoded primers, which enabled multiplexing and simultaneous detection of different subtypes in the same run.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The company working with Pan Am on the new system, Instrument Systems Corporation (ISC), claimed to have trimmed twenty-five miles of wires from the original design, using "digital time division multiplexing," in which packets of digital information from two signals occupied the same channel, and each packet is assigned a time slot within the channel.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Using multiplexing allows multiple signals to be transmitted simultaneously over a single channel, improving efficiency.

Synonyms

multiplex operation
vsmultiplexing
  • Specialized
7.0

A way of doing two or more tasks at the same time by sharing resources

sends or processes multiple streams simultaneously through one channel rather than interleaving
matrixing
vsmultiplexing
  • Specialized
8.3

Sending and combining audio or video signals to different outputs

uses one channel to send many data streams at same time rather than routing

How Many

multiplexing
  • Specialized
1 7.0
duplexing
  • Specialized
6.9

Surface Forms

multiplexing singular
multiplexings plural

Morphology

multiplexing = multiplex (semi-transparent) = multi + plex + ing

The noun is regularly formed from the verb 'multiplex' with '-ing', but the technical communications sense is specialized and not fully predictable for ordinary learners.

Etymology

Multiplexing starts with multi- meaning 'many' and uses plex meaning 'to fold or weave together', as you see in complex. So, multiplexing is like 'weaving many signals together' so they can travel on one channel at the same time.