plexus — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. A network of anastomosing or interwoven nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatic vessels.

2. An interwoven combination of parts or elements in a structure or system.

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   Sensitive reader, start not at the apparition! Oxford is a plexus of anomalies. These two youths were (odd as it may seem to you) subject to the same Statutes, affiliated to the same College, reading for the same School; aye! and though the one had inherited half a score of noble and castellated roofs, whose mere repairs cost him annually thousands and thousands of pounds, and the other’s people had but one little mean square of lead, from which the fireworks of the Crystal Palace were clearly visible every Thursday evening, in Oxford one roof sheltered both of them. Furthermore, there was even some measure of intimacy between them. It was the Duke’s whim to condescend further in the direction of Noaks than in any other. He saw in Noaks his own foil and antithesis, and made a point of walking up the High with him at least once in every term. Noaks, for his part, regarded the Duke with feelings mingled of idolatry and disapproval.

   I have the sensation of being immersed in the very plexus of life, focal from whatever place, position or attitude I take my stance.

3. The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.

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   Plexus (Lat.). The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.

Nom

1. a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels

   Synonymes

   rete

   Termes génériques

   structureanatomical structurecomplex body partbodily structurebody structure