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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024com•plex /adj. kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɑmplɛks; n. ˈkɑmplɛks/USA pronunciation adj. - composed of many related parts: a complex system.
- having a complicated arrangement of parts or pieces, often so as to be hard to deal with or understand:complex machinery.
n. [countable] - a complicated group, system, or assembly of related things that form a whole:an apartment complex; a business complex.
- Psychologya group of related ideas, desires, and impulses that influence one's attitudes and behavior:He had a complex about dark rooms. She had an inferiority complex.
com•plex•ly, adv. com•plex•ness, n. [uncountable]See -plex-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com•plex (adj., v. kəm pleks′, kom′pleks;n. kom′pleks),USA pronunciation adj. - composed of many interconnected parts;
compound;
composite:a complex highway system. - characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc.:complex machinery.
- so complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with:a complex problem.
- Grammar
- (of a word) consisting of two parts, at least one of which is a bound form, as childish, which consists of the word child and the bound form -ish.
- See complex sentence.
- Mathematicspertaining to or using complex numbers:complex methods; complex vector space.
n. - an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.:the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- Psychologya system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses that is usually repressed and that gives rise to abnormal or pathological behavior.
- a fixed idea;
an obsessive notion. - Mathematics
- an arbitrary set of elements of a group.
- a collection of simplexes having specified properties.
- ChemistryAlso called coordination compound. a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion. Cf. ligand (def. 2).
- Biochemistryan entity composed of molecules in which the constituents maintain much of their chemical identity:receptor-hormone complex, enzyme-substrate complex.
v.t. - Biochemistry, Chemistry[Chem.]to form a complex with.
v.i. - Biochemistry, Chemistry[Chem.]to form a complex.
- Late Latin complexus totality, complex (Latin: inclusion, grasping, embrace), equivalent. to complect(ere) + -tus suffix of verb, verbal action; reanalysis of the Latin verb, verbal as "to intertwine (completely)'' has influenced sense of the adjective, adjectival
- Latin complexus, past participle of complectī, complectere to embrace, encompass, include, equivalent. to complect- (see complect) + -tus past participle suffix; (noun, nominal)
- 1645–55; 1905–10 for def. 7; (adjective, adjectival)
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged knotty, tangled, labyrinthine.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged network, web, tangle, labyrinth.
- 2, 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged simple.
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