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Plex
noun
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Noun
- 1 A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside. Canada
"Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily."
- 2 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."
- 3 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."
- 4 Clipping of multiplex. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Etymology
Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere
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