Simplex

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin simplex.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Simplex m (strong, genitive Simplex or Simplexes, plural Simplexe or Simplizia or (rare, pseudo-Latinate) Simplizes)

  1. (linguistics) a simplex, a simple word without affixes, though in German it may have morphemes of inflection
    • 2001, Horst Haider Munske, Nils Århammar, Handbuch des Friesischen, →ISBN, page 449:
      Es sind, wie die Simplizia, überwiegend naturräumliche Stellenbezeichnungen (-berg, -brook, -horst) und nur wenige Heim- / Haus-Synonyme (-stede, -bur).
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  2. (geometry) a simplex (an analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron)
    • 2009, Erich Ossa, Topologie, second edition, page 92:
      Die gewünschte Homotopie lässt sich jedoch bewerkstelligen, wenn die Simplizes von X zunächst genügend fein unterteilt werden.
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    • 2009, Hans Freudenthal, Selecta, →ISBN, page 582:
      Wir bemerken weiter: Die Simplexe von Z(T) sind ähnlich der zu T konjugierten.
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