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Lex Luthor (Smallville)
Lex Luthor (Smallville) is the DC Comics villain as played by Michael Rosenbaum in the Alfred Gough and Miles Millar series Smallville; a seven-season morally ambiguous arc from Clark Kent's friend to villain, including the season six fake-pregnancy storyline with Lana Lang.
Lex Scott Davis
Lex Scott Davis (Alexis Davis, born 1991, Baltimore) is an American actress known for playing Toni Braxton in Lifetime's Unbreak My Heart (2016), Training Day's Alyse Craig, Iris in Florida Man, and Erica Rollins in Suits LA.
Lex specialis
Lex specialis (lex specialis derogat legi generali) is the legal principle that a more specific rule prevails over a general rule on the same subject matter, used in domestic and international law, notably in IHL–human rights and EU norm conflicts.
Lex Walton
Lex Walton is a Brooklyn-based transgender indie rock songwriter, bassist in Prairie Princess, whose Sub Pop debut Ultimate Love Forever (2026), co-produced with Dan Boeckner, earned an 8.3 from Pitchfork.
Lexa (The 100)
Lexa (Leksa kom Trikru) is a fictional Commander (Heda) of the Grounders in The 100, played by Alycia Debnam-Carey; founder of the Coalition, Clarke Griffin's lover (Clexa), killed in "Thirteen" (2016), sparking the Lexagate backlash.
Lexa Doig
Lexa Doig (Alexandra Lecciones Doig, born 1973) is a Canadian actress known for Rommie in Andromeda, Rowan in Jason X, Dr. Carolyn Lam in Stargate SG-1, and Sonya Valentine in Continuum.
LexA repressor
LexA repressor, the lexA gene product of E. coli and many bacteria, represses SOS DNA repair genes at SOS box operators until RecA-ssDNA triggers its autocleavage; absent from mammals, a drug target.
Lexi Jayde
Lexi Jayde (Alexis Jayde Burnett, born 2002) is a Los Angeles pop singer-songwriter and actress, known for the viral 2022 single "drunk text me," the EPs a teenage diary and closer to closure, and her 2026 Columbia debut album LOVER GIRL.
Lexi Jones
Lexi Jones, also known as Alexandria Zahra Jones, is an American singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of David Bowie and Iman, and released her debut album Xandri in 2025.
Lexi Love
Lexi Love is the drag stage name of Clair Barnes, a Florence, Kentucky-born performer on RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 (2025, placed 3rd/4th), now in a trademark dispute with actor Selena Scola over the name.
Lexi Love (actress)
Lexi Love is the professional name of Selena Scola, an American actress, voice actress, and producer active since 2004 in adult film, then mainstream film, TV, and Grand Theft Auto V voice work, known for the Scola v. Facebook settlement and a trademark dispute with drag performer Cody Barnes.
Lexi Luna
Lexi Luna is an American adult-film performer and content creator who entered the industry in 2016 after teaching, combining studio productions, independent subscription content, and Adult Time collaborations.
Lexi Rabe
Lexi Rabe (Alexandra Rachael Rabe), American child actress born 2012, known for Morgan Stark in Avengers: Endgame (2019, her debut) and Young Madison in Godzilla: King of the Monsters; later credits include Silk Road and Bad Men Must Bleed.
Lexi Rodriguez
Lexi (Alexis) Rodriguez, born 2003, is an American libero from Sterling, Illinois, for LOVB Nebraska and the USA Women's National Team; four-time All-American at Nebraska and its all-time digs leader (1,897).
Lexi Thompson
Lexi Thompson (Alexis Thompson), American professional golfer, youngest LPGA winner at 2011 Navistar Classic, 2014 Chevron/Kraft Nabisco major champion, 11 LPGA wins, seven Solheim Cups, retired from full-time play in 2024.
Lexiang Technology (乐享科技)
Lexiang Technology (乐享科技) is a Chinese consumer embodied-AI robotics startup founded in December 2024 in Suzhou by Guo Renjie, the former President of Dreame China.
Lexical analysis
Lexical analysis, also called lexing or tokenization, is the compiler phase that turns source characters into a stream of tokens using a lexer built from regular expressions and finite automata.
Lexical decision task
The lexical decision task is a widely used behavioral paradigm in cognitive psychology, introduced in 1971, in which participants judge whether letter strings are words or nonwords.
Lexical functional grammar
Lexical functional grammar (LFG) is a constraint-based theory of grammar, developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ron Kaplan, that represents linguistic information in parallel dimensions.
Lexical lists
Lexical lists are cuneiform lists of signs and words that Mesopotamian scribes used to teach writing and Sumerian vocabulary, invented at Uruk around 3200 BCE.
Lexicographic order
Lexicographic order, also called lexical or dictionary order, is a way of ordering sequences by comparing them position by position, deciding at the first position where they differ.
Lexicography
Lexicography, also called dictionary-making, is the principles and practice of compiling dictionaries; from Greek lexikographos, coined in English 1680. Distinguished by its history from Verrius Flaccus and Nebrija to the OED, its split from terminography, and its digital-era transformation.
Lexicology
Lexicology (from Greek lexis, word) is the branch of linguistics studying a language's vocabulary or lexicon, covering word meaning, morphology, borrowing, and phraseology; it supplies the theoretical basis for lexicography, dictionary making.
Lexicon
A lexicon is the collection of words of a language, also called lexis, or a speaker's stored knowledge of them, distinct from grammar and from a dictionary.
Lexie Adzija
Allexis "Lexie" Adzija (born 2000, St. Thomas, Ontario) is a Canadian PWHL forward for Seattle Torrent; drafted 65th overall by Ottawa in 2023, Quinnipiac alum, 2018 U18 bronze medalist.
Lexie Grey
Lexie Grey (Alexandra Caroline Grey) is a fictional surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Chyler Leigh; Meredith Grey's half-sister with a photographic memory ("Lexipedia"), killed in the season 8 plane crash.
Lexii Alijai
Lexii Alijai (Alexis Alijai Lynch, 1998-2020) was a St. Paul, Minnesota rapper featured on Kehlani's "Jealous" and albums Joseph's Coat and Growing Pains; she died January 1, 2020 of an accidental fentanyl and alcohol overdose.
Lexing (Yuan dynasty Huayan monk)
Lexing (了性, died 1321) was a Chinese Huayan monk of the Yuan dynasty, first abbot of Puning Temple on Mount Wutai and honored as Hongjiao dashi.
Lexington Capital Partners
Lexington Capital Partners is the flagship secondary private equity fund series of Lexington Partners, a New York specialist founded in 1994 and owned by Franklin Templeton since 2021.
Lexington Cip
Lexington Cip, or Lexington Co-Investment Partners, is the co-investment program of New York private equity firm Lexington Partners, created in 1998; its sixth fund closed with $4.6 billion in 2025.