Plex

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 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. 4
    Clipping of multiplex. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

Etymology

Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere

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