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Silex

Silex \Si"lex\, n. [L., a finit, a pebblestone.] (Min.) Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

Wiktionary
silex

n. 1 (context archaic English) flint. 2 A finely ground relatively pure form of silicas used as a paint filler etc.

WordNet
silex
  1. n. a pure form of finely ground silica

  2. a vacuum coffee maker

Gazetteer
Silex, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 206
Housing Units (2000): 91
Land area (2000): 0.191724 sq. miles (0.496564 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.191724 sq. miles (0.496564 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67808
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.122968 N, 91.057371 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63377
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Silex

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone. In modern contexts the word refers to a finely ground, nearly pure form of silica or silicate.

In the late 16th century, it meant powdered or ground up " flints" (i.e. stones, generally meaning the class of "Hard Rocks")

It was later used in 1787 when describing experiments in a published paper by Antoine Lavoisier where such earths are mentioned as the source of his isolation of the element silicon. Silex is now most commonly used to describe finely ground silicates used as pigments in paint.

Silex (disambiguation)

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone.

Silex may also refer to:

  • Silex, Indiana, an unincorperated community
  • Silex, Missouri, a village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States
  • Silex (web framework), a micro web application framework written in PHP
  • Silex website builder, a free and open source HTML website builder
  • The SILEX Process, a laser separation technique for uranium enrichment
  • Proctor Silex, a company that produced vacuum coffee makers and other small appliances
Silex (web framework)

Silex is a micro web framework written in PHP and based on Symfony, Twig (template engine) and Doctrine (database abstraction). It is MIT Licensed.

The general purpose of Silex is to be as lightweight as you need it to be, as it is made for it to be as easy as possible to add features and extend the Silex base. Silex can be used for the creation of small web applications (e.g. REST APIs) as this is the main case for micro frameworks, however Silex can be extended into a full stack MVC framework.

Silex comes in two available versions; 'fat' and 'slim'. The difference between these being that the fat version is fully featured and includes database abstraction, a template engine and various Symfony components. Whereas the slim version just comes with a basic routing engine.

Usage examples of "silex".

The wood of the tree, in comparison with the bark, is relatively poor in silex, the duramen of an old tree giving only 2.

He, excuse me, she mounts a twin launcher for the SA-N-3 Goblet, and two quad launchers for SS-N-14 Silex antisub missiles.

Seeds of Phalaris were covered with a layer onefourth of an inch in thickness of very fine sand, consisting of extremely minute grains of silex coated with [page 475] oxide of iron.

The speaker stumbled sleepily past him toward the Silex, dressed in nothing but an athletic supporter.

In the Lowville of his youth there had been a diner with a plaque over the double Silex hotplate and that plaque had read IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUR TOWN, LOOK FOR A TIMETABLE.