Sometimes when you go see a movie, you head to a multiplex cinema. A multiplex cinema is a movie theater that contains many different theaters and plays movies in a couple different formats. For example, they may offer 3D or IMAX movies.

You can tell that a multiplex cinema is not your average cinema because the word multiplex contains the prefix multi.

A prefix is a word or group of letters that is added to the beginning of the word. It often changes the meaning of the word.

Multi- is a prefix that means "many". A multiplex theater has many components.

Watch the video below to learn more words that contain the prefix multi-.