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"Plexity" seemed like perfectly clear and understandable English.
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"Plexity" looks a bit like "arity". indeed it is used in communications to describe the underlying concept of simplex/half-duplex/full-duplex connections.
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Plexity has to do with a quantity's state of articulation into equivalent elements ibid.
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They were out in Greenwich Park, walking near Lord Chesterfield's House, the Autumn was well advanced, the trees gone to Pen-Strokes and Shadows in crippl'd Plexity, bath'd in the declining light.
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Incidentally, I look'd up the Passage in the Swedish Translation, lodged next to the English Original in my crowded Book-Shelf, and it seems that this curious Plexity left the very good Translator quite perplex'd.
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It's not in the OED or the big Webster's, it's not from a Latin *plexitas -plex is only a suffix in Latin and thus is not a plausible 18th-century formation, and the only modern use of it I can turn up is a sociological one that seems extremely unlikely to be relevant here: Plexity refers to the type of transactions that we are involved in with other people.
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A belated comment: Plexity sounds like one of those invented names for corporations that sound like they should be words, but aren't, like Agilent, Accenture, Viant and Scient all real.
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