Usually means: Spell or curse causing misfortune.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hex, hex-: Merriam-Webster
  2. hex, hex, hex-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hex, hex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hex, hex-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hex, hex, hex-: Wordnik
  7. hex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hex, hex-: Wiktionary
  9. hex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hex: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hex-, hex, hex, hex-: Dictionary.com
  13. hex (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. HEX, Hex (Bark Psychosis album), Hex (Discworld), Hex (Doctor Who), Hex (Hex album), Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method), Hex (Poison Girls album), Hex (TV Series), Hex (TV series), Hex (VJ group), Hex (band), Hex (board game), Hex (climbing), Hex (computer game), Hex (disambiguation), Hex (song), Hex (video game), Hex, The Hex, .hex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hex-: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hex: Rhymezone
  17. Hex-: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hex, hex-: MyWord.info
  19. hex, hex-: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Hex-, hex: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hex-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. HEX, HEX: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. HEX: Financial dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hex: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. HEX: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. HEX: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. hex: Hacking Lexicon
  6. hex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hex, hex(a)-, hex-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. HEX: Acronym Finder
  2. Hex: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. HEX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hex: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Hex: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. HEX: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hex: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hex: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See hexed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.
noun:  An evil spell or curse.
noun:  A witch.
noun:  (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
noun:  A hexagonal space on a game board.
noun:  (climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
noun:  (computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal. [(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.]
noun:  (chemistry) Clipping of uranium hexafluoride. [(chemistry) a binary compound of uranium and fluorine, UF₆; it is a grey solid, or heavy gas, and is used in the uranium enrichment process to produce fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons]

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