Lex or LEX may refer to:

Computing

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 (artificial intelligence), virtual assistant. In April 2017, the platform was released to the de ...

, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text * LEX (cipher), a stream cipher based on the round transformation of AES *

Lex (software) Lex is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers ("scanners" or "lexers"). It is commonly used with the yacc parser generator and is the standard lexical analyzer generator on many Unix and Unix-like systems. An equivalent tool is spe ...

, a computer program that generates lexical analyzers * lex (URN), a URN namespace that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms

Music

* '' L.E.X.'', the third studio album by Liverpool Express * "Lex", a song from Ratatat's 2006 album ''Classics'' * ''Lex'' (album), a mini-album and partial soundtrack by Portland, Oregon duo Visible Cloaks * Lex Records, an independent record label

People and fictional characters

Lex (given name) Lex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created o ...

* Lex (surname) *

Lex Luger Lawrence Wendell Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and gridiron football player. He is best known for his work with Jim Crocke ...

, ring name of American professional wrestler Lawrence Pfohl (born 1958) * Lex Steele, stage name of American pornographic actor Clifton Britt (born 1969)

Places

* Lex, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Lexington Avenue Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side (Manhattan), East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street (Manhattan), 131st Street to Gra ...

, a street in Manhattan in New York City

Codes

* LEX, IATA code for

Blue Grass Airport Blue Grass Airport is a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States, 6 miles west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington. Located among horse farms and situated directly across from Keeneland Race Cou ...

, a public airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States * lex, ISO 639-3 code for the

Luang language Luang, also known as (Letri Lgona), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Leti Islands and the Babar Islands in Maluku, Indonesia. It is closely related to the neighboring Leti language, with 89% shared basic vocabulary. Phonology ...

, spoken in Indonesia

Other uses

*''Lex'', the Latin word for law, plural ''leges''; see

list of Roman laws This is a partial list of Roman laws. A Roman law () is usually named for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his ''gens'' name ('' nomen gentilicum''), in the feminine form because the noun ''lex'' (plural ''leges'' ...

for specific laws beginning with ''lex'', such as ''lex Vatinia'' * , a United States Navy aircraft carrier *

Lex (dog) Lex (1999 – March 25, 2012) was a German Shepherd military working dog who served with the United States Marine Corps and became the first active-duty, fully fit military dog to be granted early retirement for adoption. Lex was wounded in Iraq ...

(1999–2012), the first active duty, fully fit military working dog to be granted early retirement in order to be adopted *

LEX (sounding rocket) LEX (French: Lithergol EXpérimentale) was a French experimental Hybrid-propellant rocket, hybrid-propellant sounding rocket, developed by ONERA. It had the objective of testing a ''lithergol'' fueled rocket engine (an hybrid mixture of Solid-prop ...

, a French experimental hybrid-propellant sounding rocket *

Lex Autolease Lex Autolease was created in May 2009 from the merger of HBOS-owned Lex Vehicle Leasing with Lloyds TSB Autolease, and is currently the largest vehicle leasing business in the UK, with a fleet of about 385,000 vehicles. One in every thirty new c ...

, the United Kingdom's largest vehicle leasing business *

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 European Council and Council of the European Union (their main building is the Europa building) and is located ...

, a high-rise of government offices in the European Quarter of Brussels * ''Lex'', a daily featured column in the ''

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic Current affairs (news format), current affairs. Based in London, the paper is owned by a Jap ...

'' * Lex XI F.C., a Welsh football team based in Wrexham *

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 a ...

, a small extension to an aircraft wing surface * Severe Tropical Storm Lex, a category-1 typhoon in the

1983 Pacific typhoon season The 1983 Pacific typhoon season was the latest start for a Pacific typhoon season on record, and also slightly below-average in terms of named storms. It ran year-round in 1983, but all tropical cyclones formed between June and November. These da ...

* Lex, the mascot of the word-forming puzzle video game '' Bookworm'' ** Same character in the follow-up game ''