See also: -plex

English edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere

Noun edit

plex (plural plexes)

  1. (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.
    • 2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, page 457:
      Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.
    • 2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960, page 34:
      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.
  2. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
    • 2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60:
      Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.
  3. Clipping of multiplex.

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin plexus or French plexus.

Noun edit

plex n (plural plexuri)

  1. plexus

Declension edit