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multiuse

adj

Etymology

From multi- + use.

  1. derived from uti — “to use”
  2. derived from uso — “use”
  3. derived from user — “use, employ, practice”
  4. inherited from usen
  5. derived from ūsus — “use, custom, skill, habit”
  6. derived from us
  7. inherited from use
  8. prefixed as multiuse — “multi + use”

Definitions

  1. Able to accommodate multiple uses.

    • The new stadium and park would be lined on three sides with multiuse row house buildings containing commercial, office, and loft residential space.
    • A computer is a programmable, multiuse machine that accepts data — raw facts and figures — and processes, or manipulates, it into information we can use […]

  2. The use of something for more than one purpose.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multiuse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA