Meanings
googleplex1
plural googleplexes
- misspellingMisspelling of googolplex.
A googleplex, if it has slipped your mind, is a figure represented by the numeral 1 followed by a million zeros and then squared.
1939, Sydney Clark, Jacqueline Clark, Hawaii with Sydney A. Clark2 more examples
The air will be filled with raw and encrypted information, and ever smaller wireless units will be processing googleplex gigabytes of information[…]
2004, Hugh Downs, Letter to a Great Grandson[…]the deus ex machina that selects our cosmic code from the googleplex of alternatives that lurk in the mathematical recesses of the theory.
2007, James Gardner, The Intelligent Universe
Googleplex2
- businessThe corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Both Larry and Sergey wanted to make Google a fun place to work. Reflecting their beliefs, the Googleplex was decorated with Lava Lamps and painted in the bright colors of the Google Logo […]
2006, Michael A. Hitt, C. Chet Miller, Adrienne Colella, Organizational Behavior: A Strategic Approach, John Wiley & Sons
Origin
Blend of Google + complex, and a reference to googolplex (“10^{10^{100”)}}.
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