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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consisting of or marked by only one part or element.
  • adjective Of or relating to a telecommunications system in which only one message can be sent in either direction at one time.
  • noun Mathematics A Euclidean geometric spatial element having the minimum number of boundary points, such as a line segment in one-dimensional space, a triangle in two-dimensional space, or a tetrahedron in three-dimensional space.
  • noun Linguistics A word that has no affixes and is not part of a compound; a simple word.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Simple; single: applied to telegraphy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Single, simple; not complex.
  • adjective telecommunications unidirectional
  • noun geometry, algebraic topology An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1 points in n-dimensional space.
  • noun linguistics A simple word, one without affixes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having only one part or element
  • adjective allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, simple; see sem- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin

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