plex

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noun

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.

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.

2

A 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.

3

A 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.

4

Clipping of multiplex.

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