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n. (context US English) A large metropolitan area containing several city and their suburbs.
Wikipedia
A metroplex is a contiguous metropolitan area that has more than one principal anchor city of near equal size or importance.
The term was coined to specifically describe the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. According to the North Texas Commission (NTC), the term originated from an ad agency's portmanteau of the terms "metropolitan" and "complex". The NTC trademarked the term "Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex" in 1972 as a replacement for the previously-ubiquitous "North Texas".
Urban areas with smaller secondary anchor cities are not considered metroplexes, such as Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Phoenix.
A metroplex is a contiguous metropolitan area that has more than one principal anchor city of near equal importance.
Metroplex may also refer to:
- Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
- Metroplex (record label), Detroit techno record label
- Metroplex (Transformers), the name of several characters in the Transformers franchise
Metroplex (known as Scramble City while transformed) is a fictional character, and a giant Autobot in the Transformers franchise. He is depicted as massive compared to other Autobots, dwarfing even the largest Combiners and the giant Omega Supreme, and was originally portrayed as the living embodiment of Autobot City. He has appeared in supporting roles in numerous works of Transformers franchises, and was the focus of his own OVA and toy line, both titled Transformers: Scramble City. He is the rival and parallel of the Decepticon's transforming base, Trypticon.
Metroplex is a techno record label in Detroit, founded in 1985 by techno pioneer Juan Atkins. Juan Atkins did most of his work for the label under the pseudonyms Model 500 and Infiniti, and will occasionally use such names for live acts.
Usage examples of "metroplex".
A second window displayed the code of the originating phone, and the location-Sector 9, proximate to the border with the Passaic metroplex and immediately adjacent to Sector 20.
The last thing he wanted to do was waste time traipsing around die metroplex after a group of recalcitrant runners, but unfortunately he had no choice.
Practically every metroplex in the region had some sort of Asian enclave, some quite large.
There was a low cover of clouds over the southern part of Texas, and the lights from the metroplex caused the sky to flicker in eerie shades of pink and amber.
Once in Houston, he scrounged a monorail pass and went fight into the metroplex, eventually finding his way to the Astradyne corporate headquarters.
At the cost of uncounted millions of nuyen, the city engineers-with Lone Star and Metroplex Guard units running cover-had installed high-intensity carbon arc lights everywhere they could get to safely.
A young woman, with little or no financial support-Johnson had been very clear about that-coming to the Seattle metroplex for the first time.
Crashcart was a new entry on the metroplex scene, but the company had taken only a couple of months to make its presence felt with a vengeance.
Simultaneously, the metroplex night-scape pulled back as the cameraman adjusted his zoom lens.
I saw images of him summoning a grand canine army to storm through the concrete forest of the metroplex, and part of me liked the idea of being Napoleon Roverparte.
The boundary zones around the metroplex territory were not as developed as those around the city-state enclaves in Australia, but they bore the same hideous stamp of human architecture.
The metroplex was crammed with smelly crowds of humans, dark breeds, and low-life elves.
Australia was not what it should be, but even the wild mana and the chaos were preferable to the deadness of the metroplex and the stifling, oppressive gloom cast by the corporate skyscrapers.
Across Puget Sound the myriad denizens of the metroplex were going about their nightly business.
He felt a mite among giants, as out of place as deer on a metroplex street.