Lex

Lex or LEX may refer to:

Names

• Lex (given name)
• Lex (surname)

Places

• Lexington, Kentucky
• Lexington Avenue, in New York City
• Lex, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Arts and entertainment

• The Lex column, in the Financial Times newspaper

Music

• L.E.X., an album by Liverpool Express
• "Lex", a song on the album Classics by the electronic music group Ratatat
• Lex Records, UK
• Lex (album), a 2017 album by Portland duo Visible Cloaks

Games

• Lex mascot in Bookworm (video game), a word-forming computer puzzle game
• Lex the Bookworm, the principal character of the game Bookworm Adventures

Computing

• Lex (software), a lexical analyzer generator
• LEX (cipher)
• Lex (URN), a type of Uniform Resource Name
• Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text

Transportation and military

• Leading-edge extension, an extension to an aircraft wing surface
• Blue Grass Airport (IATA code: LEX), Lexington, Kentucky, US
• Lex (dog), an Iraq War dog
• USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed the "Lady Lex", a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sunk in World War II

Other uses

• Lex, the Latin word for "law" or "statute"; See List of Roman laws
  • Lex (Canon law), in Roman Catholic canon law, a law which has been formulated in written (versus oral) form and promulgated by competent authority
• Typhoon Lex, in the 1983 Pacific typhoon season
• Lex building, a government office building in Brussels
• Lex Autolease, a vehicle leasing company in the UK

See also

• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926), French politician nicknamed "L'Ex"
• Lex XI F.C., a Welsh football team
• Leges (disambiguation)
• Lexx, a science fiction television series