plex
/plˈɛks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
Canadian usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere
Origin
- Source language: Latin