Meaning of plex | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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