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complex /ˈkɒmplɛks /adjective1Consisting of many different and connected parts: a complex network of water channels...- The plant's shoots receive nourishment from a complex network of connections to the roots.
- The hips, on the other hand, are a very large and complex joint with many different muscles and attachments.
- As the vocal folds consist of a complex web of different muscle fibres, the tension and density of vocal folds can vary considerably.
Synonyms compound, composite, compounded, multiplex 1.1Not easy to analyse or understand; complicated or intricate: a complex personality the situation is more complex than it appears...- Miller's writing is excellent, and he makes some rather complex biochemistry easy to understand.
- In other words, the problems are much more complex than Mr. Baker understands or cares to discuss.
- However, the whole matter of indirect tax liability is devilishly complex and difficult to understand.
Synonyms complicated, involved, intricate, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, impenetrable, Byzantine, Daedalian, Gordian; difficult, hard, knotty, tricky, thorny, problematical informal fiddly rare involute, involuted 2 Mathematics Denoting or involving numbers or quantities containing both a real and an imaginary part.He also classified real and complex numbers into classes which are algebraically independent....- Bombelli was the first person to write down the rules for addition, subtraction and multiplication of complex numbers.
- In addition to his work on geometry, Bolyai developed a rigorous geometric concept of complex numbers as ordered pairs of real numbers.
3 Chemistry Denoting an ion or molecule in which one or more groups are linked to a metal atom by coordinate bonds: in naming complex ions, the names of the ligands are cited first...- Often the atoms comprising a complex molecule can be arranged in several ways and still satisfy the octet rule for each atom.
- Carbohydrates can form more complex molecules when linked with other molecules.
- This process occurs when oxygen atoms bond to an iron atom at the center of a complex protein molecule known as oxyhemoglobin.
noun1A group or system of different things that are linked in a close or complicated way; a network: a complex of mountain roads...- ‘Network’ includes a complex of interconnected computer or communication systems of any type.
- The complex of field systems and large stone walls extend from the north western slopes of Mount Brandon to within the boundaries of Dingle.
- The wheel itself was split into many different complexes.
Synonyms network, system, interconnected system/structure/scheme, nexus, web, tissue; combination, composite, synthesis, fusion, aggregation 1.1A group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site: a leisure complex a complex of hotels...- He has watched as new building complexes have risen over sites he knows contain more lost tombstones.
- Dentists' offices, doctors' offices and markets were all built into the apartment complexes to make life more efficient.
- About 70 families were left homeless by the fire, which destroyed three buildings in the apartment complex.
2 Psychoanalysis A related group of repressed or partly repressed emotionally significant ideas which cause psychic conflict leading to abnormal mental states or behaviour.For about six to eight hours you seem to have no physical experience of the chronic muscular tensions that Reich says are symptomatic of unhealthy mental or emotional complexes....- Jung, Freud and comrades helped to systematise intuitive skill while deciphering some psychic complexes of their own Europe in turmoil.
- Like Jack, David had a complex and conflicted history of diagnoses, treatments and medication.
2.1 informal A strong or disproportionate concern or anxiety about something: there’s no point having a complex about losing your hair...- I had such a complex about it that I never noticed that I was actually quite fair compared to everyone in the class.
- He was also a bookworm who had a complex about his family's poverty and a fan of kung fu and violent movies.
- Perhaps I should get a complex about the Jonah joke.
Synonyms obsession, phobia, fixation, preoccupation; neurosis; French idée fixe informal hang-up, thing, bee in one's bonnet 3 Chemistry An ion or molecule in which one or more groups are linked to a metal atom by coordinate bonds: two guanine bases can attach themselves to the same platinum atom, forming a stable complex...- It is known that metal cations form complexes with anionic phosphodiester groups and carbonyl oxygens in the glycerol backbone of phosphocholine lipids.
- It correctly accounts for the structures of most covalent compounds of elements other than transition metal complexes.
- If two molecules or complexes have the same molecular formula they are candidates for stereochemical analysis.
3.1Any loosely bonded species formed by the association of two molecules: cross-linked protein-DNA complexes...- This might occur in newly synthesized proteins to aid in folding or in mature proteins to control their activity or association with other protein complexes.
- The chromo-domain and the related chromo-shadow domain mediate the formation of protein complexes and their association with chromatin.
- It is not, however, clear whether association of ternary complexes is necessary to confer photoactivity, for instance by a stabilization effect.
verb [with object] ChemistryMake (an atom or compound) form a complex with another: the DNA was complexed with the nuclear extract...- Chloride is complexed with the silver chromate and fixed in a circular pattern around the entry point.
- They may reduce mineral metal ions through direct contact or by reducing complexed ions.
- Iron is mostly complexed with the organic ligands or colloids that are very abundant in natural seawater.
Derivatives complexation noun ( Chemistry ) ...- The resulting NTA surface is activated by complexation of Cu 2 + ions rendering it capable of reversible immobilization of His-tagged proteins.
- These results can be understood on the basis of preferential complexation of PicoGreen with base paired structures assumed by DNA following both intramolecular and intermolecular aggregation.
- In our analysis of complexation of lipids via water bridging, we do not distinguish between the two types of hydrogen-bonded interactions between cholesterol and water, placing them both in the general binding mode category, WB.
complexly adverb ...- As it is, the somewhat uniform and monolithic representation of ‘the West’ mars the attempt to produce a nuanced and subtle reading of cultural hybridity as the inevitable product of a complexly interwoven global milieu.
- In contradiction to the usual concept of poetry as dense and academic, complexly layered with meaning and allusion, McGarragle is hoping to hook audiences with ‘in-between’ poetry.
- Modern fathers are complex - and they have to be complexly, not crudely, managed to get the best out of them.
Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'group of related elements'): from Latin complexus, past participle (used as a noun) of complectere 'embrace, comprise', later associated with complexus 'plaited'; the adjective is partly via French complexe. |