Definitions
1.AdjectiveHaving a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
2.AdjectiveOf an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
3.AdjectiveOf a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
4.AdjectiveOf a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
5.AdjectiveOf a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
6.AdjectiveSynonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).
7.AdjectiveOf a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
8.AdjectiveOf an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
9.NounA generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of
n
+
1
{\displaystyle n+1}
affinely independent points in
n
{\displaystyle n}
-dimensional space.
10.NounA word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word."The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not."
11.NounA word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word."The word weak is a simplex. Its derivative weaken is not."
12.NounIn full simplex sentence: in transformational grammar: a simple sentence which is the product of a few transformations; a kernel sentence.
13.NounAn apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.