Hex

A hex is a magical spell, usually with malevolent purposes such as a curse. The term is derived from the German word Hexe for a witch.

Hexa– is a prefix from the Greek word for 'six', as in hexagon, a polygon with six corners.

Hex may also refer to:

Contents 1 Computers & Technology 2 Pennsylvania Dutch 3 Entertainment 3.1 Television and film 3.2 Music 3.3 Literature 3.4 Games & Themepark attractions 4 Other 5 See also

Computers & Technology

• Hexadecimal, or hex, a base-16 number system often used in computer nomenclature
• Intel HEX, a computer file format
• Uranium hexafluoride, part of the nuclear fuel refinement process
• Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer

Pennsylvania Dutch

• Pow-wow (folk magic), the Pennsylvania German magical system of "hex work"
• Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch Country of the Northeastern United States

Entertainment

Television and film

• Hex (TV series), a British television programme
• Hex (Doctor Who), a character in the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who
• Hex, a Ben 10 villain
• Hex (film), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
• Jonah Hex (film), a 2010 film based on the DC Comics character
• The Hex Girls, a fictitious, gothic girl group in the Scooby-Doo franchise
• Stephanie "Hex" Bendixsen (born 1985), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game
• HEX, also known as Vexos, a group of antagonists in anime Bakugan: New Vestroia; the name "HEX" is used in overseas version, while the alternative name "Vexos" is used in US/Canadian version

Music

• Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method), an album by the band Earth
• Hex (album), a 1994 album by the band Bark Psychosis
• Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s, which later became Hexstatic
• Hex Hector (born 1965), American dance remixer. He won a Grammy in 2001 for "Best Remixer"
• Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf
• Hex, a late 1980s band consisting of Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer

Literature

• Hex (Discworld), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Hex (novel), a 2001 dystopian novel by Rhiannon Lassiter
• Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
• Hex (Marvel Comics), a character in the series ClanDestine

Games & Themepark attractions

• Part of a hex map in wargames
• Hex (board game), a board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11x11 rhombus
• Hex (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST
• Hex – the Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England

Other

• Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
• Hex River, South Africa
• Hex key, a tool used to drive fasteners; also known as a hex wrench, Allen wrench, hex-head or zeta key
• A telephone hex key is # in Singapore and Malaysia

See also

• Hexes (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Hex"
• All pages beginning with "Hex"

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