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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
simplex
term used to describe a method of winding the armature of a commutated electric machine in which consecutive coils are placed in adjacent coil slots around the periphery of the rotor. In a lap winding, this produces two parallel electrical path between brushes for each pole pair. In a wave winding, a simplex arrangement produces two parallel electrical paths between brushes regardless of the number of poles. See also duplex, multiplex.