Multiplexing/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Multiplexing.

A variety of techniques in electronic engineering, computer science, and network engineering, the most basic of which being multiple lower-speed information channels being combined to be sent over a higher-speed transmission channel, and broken out again at the receiver