plex

plural plexes

1. CanadaA building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.

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

   2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, page 457

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   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.

   2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960, page 34

2. computingA 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.

   2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60

3. computingA 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.

   1975, James Martin, Computer Data-Base Organization, pages 89-99

4. abbreviationclippingClipping of multiplex.