Plex

Quick meaning: Plex is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

More Meanings

1. (computing) A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
2. (computing) A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents.
3. Clipping of multiplex.

Example Sentences

Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.

Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• plexes

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