plex
nounEtymology Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere
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Canada 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.2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, page 457:
- English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960, page 34:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.1975, James Martin, Computer Data-Base Organization, pages 89-99:
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Abbreviation, Clipping Clipping of multiplex.