Multiplexers

nouncandidate·updated Oct 6, 2026

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A device that encodes or multiplexes information from two or more data sources into a single channel. They are used in situations where the cost of implementing separate channels for each data source is more expensive than the cost and inconvenience of providing the multiplexing/de-multiplexing functions.

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

a device that can interleave two or more activities

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

alternatephrasing: Multiplexer
possessive: Multiplexers's
pluralpossessive: Multiplexerses'

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