Literary notes about multiplex (AI summary)
The term "multiplex" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of manifold complexity or layered structure, whether applied to concrete technological systems or abstract human qualities. In technical contexts, it denotes systems that function by incorporating several channels or components—such as in telegraphy, where one wire carries multiple messages simultaneously ([1], [2], [3])—while in more metaphorical treatments it suggests the intricate interplay of diverse elements in personality or societal constructs ([4], [5]). In some narratives, it even enhances the depiction of physical and atmospheric details, reinforcing the idea of an environment or character composed of numerous, interwoven parts ([6], [7]).
- The 3B thereafter became standard apparatus and additional orders were placed as the multiplex system at Western Union expanded (see figure 2 ).
— from Printing Telegraphy... A New Era Begins by Edward E. Kleinschmidt - His first ambitious attempt was in the direction of a multiplex system for sending several messages over one wire at the same time.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert - Sometimes it is called a system of “multiplex” telephony because it permits more than one message at a time.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills - ( c ) Metamorphoses; as of insects and amphibians; and polymorphism, as of hydrozoa; multiplex personality.
— from Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers - This world is the multiplex "Image of his own Dream."
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle - She rose, as if to wind up the painful interview, and the others rose, too, with a multiplex rustling of silken skirts.
— from Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill - Lucidity or Clairvoyance 74 CHAPTER V. Double or Multiplex Personality 116 CHAPTER VI.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason
