Lex Definition

lĕks
lex, leges
noun
Law.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
abbreviation
Lexicon.
Webster's New World
verb

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

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pronoun

A pet form of the male given name Alexander.

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Origin of Lex

  • Latin lēx lēg- leg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From lexical analysis, from lexical

    From Wiktionary

Lex Sentence Examples

  • Gradually there would arise the idea of proportionate punishment, of which the characteristic type is the lex talionis, 1 " an eye for an eye."

  • The Lex Saxonum has come down to us in two MSS.

  • The qualifications for the office were fixed in each town by a special law for that community (lex municipalis).

  • It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.

  • In the criminal law the ruling principle was the lex talionis.

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Words Starting With

LLELEX

Words Ending With

XEXLEX

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Words Starting With L and Ending With X

Starts With L & Ends With XStarts With LE & Ends With XStarts With L & Ends With EX

Word Length

3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With L3 Letter Words Ending With X