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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-plex, - a combining form meaning "having parts or units'' of the number specified by the initial element, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (duplex;
quadruplex);
recent English coinages ending in -plex, esp. denoting structures with a given number of dwelling units, are probably in part new formations with this suffix and in part based on the noun complex: fourplex;
eightplex;
Cineplex;
Metroplex.
- Latin -plex, -plic- (akin to plicāre to fold, bend, plectere to plait, braid; see -fold) + -s nominative singular ending
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