Lex or LEX may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lex'', a daily featured column
in the ''Financial Times''
Games
* Lex, the mascot of the word-forming puzzle video game
''Bookworm''
* Lex, the protagonist of the word-forming puzzle video game ''
Bookworm Adventures
''Bookworm Adventures'' is a word-forming puzzle video game, the follow-up to ''Bookworm'' from PopCap Games. Released in November 2006, ''Bookworm Adventures'' combines the "create words from sets of letters" aspect of ''Bookworm'' with several e ...
''
Music
* ''
L.E.X.
''L.E.X.'' is the third studio album by Liverpool Express, released in March 1979, in Europe only. Popular song's from this album are: ''"I Want Nobody But You"''; ''"Games People Play"''; and ''"Take It Easy With My Heart"''.
The album was r ...
'', the third studio album by Liverpool Express
* "Lex", a song from Ratatat's 2006 album
''Classics''
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''Lex'' (album), a mini-album and partial soundtrack by Portland, Oregon duo Visible Cloaks
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Lex Records
Lex Records is a British independent record label based in Camden, London, England.
Style
Lex has a varied musical output. Most releases are alternative hip hop, alternative rock or electronic. The label works with a small group of artists. ...
, an independent record label
Computing
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Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. It powers the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant. In April 2017, the platform was released to the developer community, and suggested that it coul ...
, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text
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LEX (cipher) LEX is a stream cipher based on the round transformation of AES. LEX provides the same key agility and short message block performance as AES while handling longer messages faster than AES. In addition, it has the same hardware and software flexi ...
, a stream cipher based on the round transformation of AES
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Lex (software)
Lex is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers ("scanners" or "lexers").
Lex is commonly used with the yacc parser generator. Lex, originally written by Mike Lesk and Eric Schmidt and described in 1975, is the standard lexical analyz ...
, a computer program that generates lexical analyzers
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lex (URN)
is a ''URN namespace'', a type of Uniform Resource Name (URN), that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms.
LexML Brazil and Italy (Civil law countries) already officially recognize the ''URN LEX standard draft v0.9'', as ...
, a URN namespace that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms.
Names
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Lex (given name) Lex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander or Alexis.
People with the name
*Lex Banning (1921–1965), Australian lyric poet
*Lex Barker (1919–1973), American actor
*Lex Davison (1923–1965), Australian racing driver
* ...
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Lex (surname) Lex is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alfred Lex (1913-1944), German Waffen-SS officer in World War II
* Hans Ritter von Lex Hans Ritter von Lex (1893-1970) was a German political figure and the President of the German Red C ...
Places
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Lex, West Virginia
Lex is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cla ...
, an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia
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Lexington Avenue
Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along it ...
, an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City
Transportation
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Blue Grass Airport
Blue Grass Airport is a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States, 6 miles west of downtown Lexington. Located among horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Course, Blue Grass Airport is the primary airport ...
(IATA code: LEX), a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky
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Leading-edge extension
A leading-edge extension (LEX) is a small extension to an aircraft wing surface, forward of the leading edge. The primary reason for adding an extension is to improve the airflow at high angles of attack and low airspeeds, to improve handling an ...
, a small extension to an aircraft wing surface
* , an early aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy
Other
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Lex (dog)
Lex (1999 – March 25, 2012) was the first active duty, fully fit military working dog to be granted early retirement in order to be adopted. Working for his United States Marine Corps handler Corporal Dustin J. Lee in the Iraq War, he was ...
(1999–2012), the first active duty, fully fit military working dog to be granted early retirement in order to be adopted
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Lex Autolease
Lex Autolease was created in May 2009 from the merger of HBOS-owned Lex Vehicle Leasing with Lloyds TSB Autolease, and is the currently the largest vehicle leasing business in the UK, with a fleet of about 385,000 vehicles. One in every thirty ne ...
, the United Kingdom's largest vehicle leasing business
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Lex building
The Lex building is a high-rise of government offices in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is an annex building of the Council of the European Union (its main building is the Europa building) and is located at Rue de la Loi/Wetstraa ...
, a high-rise of government offices in the European Quarter of Brussels
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Lex XI F.C.
Lex Glyndwr XI F.C. are a Welsh football team based in Wrexham, currently playing in the North East Wales Football League Premier Division.
History
They play in the Welsh National League Division One, which is in the Fourth level of the Wels ...
, a Welsh football team based in Wrexham
* Severe Tropical Storm Lex, a category-1 typhoon
in the 1983 Pacific typhoon season
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Lexus
is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota. The Lexus brand is marketed in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide and is Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. It has ranked among the 10 largest Japanese ...
, a luxury car brand owned by Toyota
See also
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Leges (disambiguation)
* ''
Lexx
''Lexx'' (also known as ''LEXX: The Dark Zone Stories'' and ''Tales from a Parallel Universe'') is a science fiction television series created by Lex Gigeroff and brothers Paul and Michael Donovan. It originally aired on April 18, 1997, on Cana ...
'', a science fiction television series
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