lex

n. law (Latin)

Lex or LEX may be:Lex programming tool, in computer programming, a lexical-analyzer generatorThe Latin word for the written law (see Translating "law" to other European languages)An abbreviation of the automobile company LexusShort for the name AlexanderLex Petrolea, the best practices of the industry of the petroleum. That’s a “lex mercatoria” at petroleum industry. Lex Petrolea is a common law. In some countries is a secondary source of right that gives a transnational aspect to the rules of the industry of the petroleum.Lex Records, an independent record labelThe algebraic syntax developed by Michael BrameThe trading name of Lex Vehicle LeasingA synonym for small encyclopedia like Small-LexA single from the Ratatat album Classics
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pref. lex, law (Latin)

(n.)
Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, 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.
  

1. <tool> A lexical analyser generator for Unix and its input language. There is a GNU version called flex and a version written in, and outputting, SML/NJ called ML-lex. A version, by David Poole at Montana has been retargeted to Turbo Pascal, ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/lyprg.zip.
["Lex - A Lexical Analyzer Generator", M.E. Lesk, CS TR 39, Bell Labs, Oct 1975].
2. The lexical specification language for COPS.
["Metalanguages of the Compiler Production System COPS", J. Borowiec, in GI Fachgesprach "Compiler-Compiler", ed W. Henhapl, Tech Hochs Darmstadt 1978, pp.122-159].
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