Hex
Appearance
Hex or HEX may refer to:
Computers and technology
- Hexadecimal, a base-16 number system often used in computer nomenclature
- Hypersonic Flight Experiment, a planned mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation
- Intel HEX, a computer file format
- Uranium hexafluoride, part of the nuclear fuel refinement process
- Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer
Pennsylvania Dutch
- Pow-wow (folk magic), the Pennsylvania German magical system of "hex work"
- Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch Country of the Northeastern United States
Entertainment
Television and film
- Hex (TV series), a British television programme
- Hex (Doctor Who), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who
- Hex (Ben 10), a villain in the Ben 10 franchise
- Hex (1973 film), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
- Hex (1980 film), a 1980 film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
- Hex (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Clarence Peters
- Mr. Hex, a 1946 Bowery Boys comedy film
- Jonah Hex (film), a 2010 film based on the DC Comics character
- The Hex Girls, a fictitious, gothic girl group in the Scooby-Doo franchise
- Stephanie Bendixsen (born 1985), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game known by the gamertag Hex
Music
- Hex (album), a 1994 album by the band Bark Psychosis
- Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s which later became Hexstatic
- Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, an album by the band Earth
- Hex Hector (born 1965), American dance remixer
- Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf
- Hex, a late 1980s band consisting of Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer
- "Hex", a 2014 song co-written by Wax Motif and Tommy Trash
Literature
- Hex (Discworld), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Hex (novel), a 2001 dystopian novel by Rhiannon Lassiter
- HEX (2013 novel), a 2013 (Dutch) / 2016 (English translation) horror novel by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
- Hex (Marvel Comics), a character in the series ClanDestine
- HEX, an evil organization in the novel InterWorld
Games
- A tile of a hex map in wargames
- Hex (board game), a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11x11 rhombus
- Hex: Shards of Fate, an MMO trading card game by Cryptozoic Entertainment
- Hex (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST
Other uses
- Helsinki Stock Exchange
- Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
- Hex – The Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England
- Hex River (Breede River), a tributary of the Breede River in South Africa
- Hex River (Elands River), a tributary of the Elands River in South Africa
- Hex key, a tool used to drive fasteners; also known as a hex wrench, Allen wrench, hex-head or zeta key
- Hexham railway station, Northumberland, England
- High-energy X-rays, or HEX-rays, very hard X-rays
- A telephone hex key is # in Singapore and Malaysia
- The Hexagonal, the final round of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers for CONCACAF
- Hex'Air, an airline based in southern France
- Heathrow Express, a train service in London