plex
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plex
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Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere
noun plexes
- A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside. Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.
- A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents. Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.
- A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents. If a child in a data relationship has more than one parent, the relationship cannot be described as a tree or hierarchical structure. Instead it is described as a ... plex structure.
- Clipping of multiplex
Talk about this word "plex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/plex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. plex. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/plex "plex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/plex.
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@misc{plex_2026,
title = {plex},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plex},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
