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How to pronounce “simplex”

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Pronunciation guide for simplex

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of simplex with real speech in context.
Available examples: 2 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?who had a neural infection with the herpes simplex virus.
Definition summary: (dated) Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.

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Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?

who had a neural infection with the herpes simplex virus.

[Adjective]
(dated) Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
(anatomy, historical) Of 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.
(computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
(genetics)
(linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
(originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
[Noun]
(algebraic topology, geometry) A 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
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affinely independent points in
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-dimensional space.
(linguistics)
(originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.