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memexes

memexes is the plural of memex.

Meaning of memex

Noun

memex (plural memexes)

  1. A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
    • Surely when Vannevar Bush imagined his hyperlinked memex or Jorge Luis Borges his Library of Babel or Tim Berners-Lee his World Wide Web, what excited them wasn’t the possibility of reading the boldfaced words “nympho starlets” in a printed novel, racing to the nearest computer to type a U.R.L....2007 February 11, Matt Weiland, “Web of Spies”, in New York Times

Questions about memexes

What is memexes the plural of?
Memexes is the plural of memex.

Words near memexes in the dictionary

  1. memetist
  2. memetists
  3. memeverse
  4. memeworthy
  5. memex
  6. memexes
  7. memey
  8. Memfrica
  9. memic
  10. memier
  11. memiest

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