Vex

Vex may refer to:

Technology

VEX prefix, a microprocessor opcode prefix and coding scheme for the x86 instruction set architecture

Vex, a scripting language in the software Houdini

Venus Express, a European Space Agency space mission to the planet Venus

Vex, a suborbital test Tronador rocket in development by Argentina

Fiction

Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica, a fictional guide to the Babylon 5 universe

Vex, a character in the video game Darkspore

Vex, in the Canadian television series Lost Girl

The Vex, a race of semi-organic machines and one of the four alien enemy factions found in Destiny

Other uses

Vex (album), by Steel Pulse

Vex, Switzerland, a municipality

Ulorin Vex, English model

Vex (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus; See List of brachiopod genera

Virgin Express, a European airline, now merged into Brussels Airlines

Vex (album)

Vex is a reggae album released by Steel Pulse in September, 1994. It is Steel Pulse's ninth studio album. It was their first album without founding member Alphonso Martin.

The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top Reggae Album charts.

Track listing

"Bootstraps" – 4:48

"Back to My Roots" – 4:59

"Islands Unite" – 4:20

"Better Days" – 4:50

"In My Life" – 4:36

"Endangered Species" – 4:34

"New World Order" – 4:30

"X Resurrection" – 4:34

"Whirlwind Romance" – 4:56

"No Justice, No Peace" – 4:43

"Dirty H2O" – 4:19

"Dub to My Roots" – 4:58

"Dubite" – 4:18

References

Vex, Switzerland

Vex is a municipality and capital of the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Geography

Vex has an area, as of 2009, of 13 square kilometers (5.0 sq mi). Of this area, 4.17 km² (1.61 sq mi) or 32.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.17 km² (2.38 sq mi) or 47.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.71 km² (0.66 sq mi) or 13.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km² (17 acres) or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.87 km² (0.34 sq mi) or 6.7% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 38.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 7.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.2% is used for growing crops and 18.3% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops and 11.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 5.7% is unproductive vegetation.

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