Hex usually refers to:
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A curse or supposed real and potentially supernaturally realized malicious wish
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Hexadecimal, a base-16 number system often used in computer nomenclature
Hex, HEX, or The Hex may also refer to:
Magic
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Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch regions of the United States
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Hex work, a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) folk magic system also known as pow-wow
Engineering and technology
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Hex key, a tool also known as a hex wrench or Allen wrench, used to drive fasteners
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Hex key, a number sign (#) key on telephones (regional term used in Singapore and Malaysia)
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High-energy X-rays, sometimes abbreviated "HEX-rays"
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Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
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Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer
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Hypersonic Flight Experiment, a planned mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation
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Intel HEX, a computer file format
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Uranium hexafluoride, a compound used in nuclear fuel refinement
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Hex color, a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in computing applications to represent colors
Businesses and services
Games and sport
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Hex, a hexagonal tile of a hex map, used in war and strategy board games
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Hex (board game), a mathematical strategy game played on a hexagonal grid or rhombus
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Hex (climbing), an item of rock climbing equipment used to arrest a fall
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Hex (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST
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, an MMO trading card game by Cryptozoic Entertainment
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Hex – The Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England
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The Hexagonal (CONCACAF), final round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers for North America, Central America, and the Caribbean
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Hex, pseudonym of the puzzle writers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
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The Hex (video game), a 2018 computer game by the creator of Pony Island
Places
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Hex River, a tributary of the Breede River in South Africa
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Hex River, a tributary of the Elands River in South Africa
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Hexham railway station, Northumberland, England
Arts and media
Books
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Hex (1998 novel), a dystopian novel for young adults by Rhiannon Lassiter
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Hex, a 2011 science fiction novel by Allen Steele
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HEX (2013 novel), a Dutch horror novel by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, published in English in 2016
Fictional characters
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Hex ( Ben 10), a villain in the Ben 10 franchise
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Hex (Discworld), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
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Hex Schofield, a companion of the Seventh Doctor in a series of Doctor Who audio plays
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Hex, an illusionist and escapologist in the Marvel Comics series ClanDestine
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Hex, an undead dark elf necromancer in the Netflix animated series Skylanders Academy
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HEX, an evil organization in the novel InterWorld
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Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
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The Hex Girls, a fictitious musical group in the Scooby-Doo franchise
Film, television and stage
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HEX, in WandaVision is a nickname for the city of Westview
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Hex (1973 film), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
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Hex, a 1980 Hong Kong film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
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Hex (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Clarence Peters
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Hex, a 2018 film directed by Rudolf Buitendach
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Hex (musical), a 2021 musical based on the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty
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Hex (TV series), a 2004–2005 supernatural/horror drama on British television
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Jonah Hex (film), a 2010 film based on a DC Comics character
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Mr. Hex, a 1946 Bowery Boys comedy film
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Stephanie Bendixsen (born 1985), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game, known by the gamertag Hex
Music
Musical artists
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Hex, an indie rock duo formed in 1988 by Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer
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Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s which later became Hexstatic
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Hex Hector (born 1965), American dance remixer
Songs and albums
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Hex (Bark Psychosis album), 1994
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Hex (Hex album), 1989, by the indie rock duo Hex
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Hex (Jon McKiel album), 2024
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Hex (Poison Girls album), 1979
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Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf
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Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, a 2005 album by the band Earth
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"Hex" (song), by Rezz and 1788-L
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"Hex", a 2014 song co-written by Wax Motif and Tommy Trash
See also
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Hex game (disambiguation)
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Hexes (disambiguation)
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Hexing (disambiguation)
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Hexed (disambiguation)
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, a 1994 video game
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"The Hexx", a song by the band Pavement
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HHEX, hematopoietically expressed homeobox protein