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Lex \Lex\ (l[e^]ks), n.; pl. Leges (l[=e]"j[=e]z). [L. See Legal.] Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terr[ae], the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.

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lex

vb. (context computing English) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

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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 analyzer generator on many Unix systems, and an equivalent tool is specified as part of the POSIX standard.

Lex reads an input stream specifying the lexical analyzer and outputs source code implementing the lexer in the C programming language.

Lex

Lex or LEX may refer to:

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 flexibility as AES, and hardware implementations of LEX can share resources with AES implementations.

Designed by Alex Biryukov, LEX is a Phase 2 Focus candidate for the eSTREAM project. It is not patented.

A new revision of LEX protects against a slide attack found in an earlier version.

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 wounded in an attack that killed Lee, and subsequently awarded an honorary Purple Heart.

Lex (given name)

Lex is a given name. It is a common male name in the Netherlands, and is sometimes short for Alexander or Alexandra.

People bearing the name include:

  • Lex Banning (1921-1965), Australian lyric poet
  • Lex Barker (1919-1973), American actor
  • Lex Davison (1923-1965), Australian racing driver
  • Lex van Delden (1919-1988), Dutch composer
  • Lex Frieden, disability activist and professor
  • Lex Gigeroff (c. 1962-2011), Canadian television writer and actor best known as co-creator of the science fiction series Lexx
  • Lex Goudsmit (1913-1999), Dutch actor
  • Robert A. Green (1892-1973), U.S. Representative from Florida
  • Lex Humphries (1936-1994), jazz drummer
  • Lex Lang (born 1965), American voice actor
  • Lex Lasry (born 1948), Australian lawyer and a judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Lex Law, Scottish former footballer
  • Lex Luger (born 1958), ring name of long-time professional wrestler Lawrence Wendell "Larry" Pfohl
  • Lex McLean (1908-1975), Scottish comedian
  • Lex Schoenmaker (born 1947), Dutch former football player and manager
  • Alexander Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), English actor
  • Lex Staley, half of the syndicated morning team Lex and Terry
  • Lex van den Berghe a participant in the television show Survivor: Africa
  • Lex Mandos a user of the site Wikipedia

Fictional characters so named include:

  • Lex Luthor, nemesis of Superman
  • Alexander Lexington, Marvel Comics mutant
  • Alexis "Lex" Murphy in the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise
  • Lex, a fictional character in the TV series The Tribe (1999-2003) played by Caleb Ross
  • Lex, in the game Fire Emblem
Lex (URN)

lex is a type of Uniform Resource Name (URN), that allows accurate identification of laws and other legal norms.

LexML Brasil and Italy ( Civil law countries) already do an official use of the URN LEX standard draft v0.9, as a namespace for sources of law.

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 (1893-1970), German politician and civil servant, and President of the German Red Cross
  • Konrad Lex (born 1974), German ski mountaineer

Usage examples of "lex".

Lex Ogulnia, increasing the number of the Pontiffs and Augurs, and enacting that a certain number of them should be taken from the Plebeians 51 339.

The second man involved with the kidnapping, the one Elaine had killed, had been identified as Darryl Huffer, a long-time associate of Lex Adams.

They close all the blinds in the house and put on their protective disposable clothing, then Lucy sets up the tripod, attaches the camera and the cable release, while Lex mixes up the luminol and transfers it to a black pump spray bottle.

On glancing upstream Lex saw that two or three of the team who had been constructing the sedimentation tanks were making their way down the middle of the drying riverbed.

If the consequences, to a man, of the slightest descent from virginity were one-tenth as swift and barbarous as the consequences to a young girl in like case, it would take a division of infantry to dredge up a single male flouter of that lex talionis in the whole western world.

Cum prope omnis civitas eo convenisset, docereturque paucis clam convocatis alio loco, alio tempore atque oportuerit fratrem a fratre renuntiatum, cum leges duo ex una familia vivo utroque non solum magistratus creari vetarent, sed etiam in senatu esse prohiberent, Cotum imperium deponere coegit, Convictolitavem, qui per sacerdotes more civitatis intermissis magistratibus esset creatus, potestatem obtinere iussit.

The parties to this document, which is become the lex suprema in base-ball affairs, are now, primarily, the National League and the American Association.

Lex crouches on the cool terrazzo floor and opens the crime-scene case.

But Lex, being the son of Murichon Burns, had been off planet twice, once when he was just thirteen, on a scouting trip into Cassiopeian territory to determine the feasibility of trade routes into the galaxy.

Rambler, the converted Cassiopeian, talked of his home and the far-flung alliance of star groups on the other side of the line and Lex felt a glow of pride to be a member of a race which could, in so short a time, conquer so much of the galaxy.

Cum prope omnis civitas eo convenisset, docereturque paucis clam convocatis alio loco, alio tempore atque oportuerit fratrem a fratre renuntiatum, cum leges duo ex una familia vivo utroque non solum magistratus creari vetarent, sed etiam in senatu esse prohiberent, Cotum imperium deponere coegit, Convictolitavem, qui per sacerdotes more civitatis intermissis magistratibus esset creatus, potestatem obtinere iussit.

Roman curiae witnessed the adoption and passed a lex curiata of consent to the adoption.

Qua via lata patet, qua pronior area lucri, Certaque condendi fulget spes aurea nummi: Nec rapis ad leges, male custoditaque gentis Jura, nec insulsis damnas clamoribus aures.

Lex Salica, the Edictum Rotharis, and the Anglo-Saxon laws, so that we have here something like a pedigree of the custom.

Lex accounted for dozens of them as they neared the planet, throwing his ship around space with reckless abandon, lashing out with rays and Darlenes at the points of death which appeared in his finders, listening with half an ear to the locations sent up by the ground controllers.