- 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.
- complex sentence.
- pertaining to or using complex numbers: complex methods; complex vector space.
- an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- a 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.
- a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent ) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion.
- an entity composed of molecules in which the constituents maintain much of their chemical identity: receptor-hormone complex, enzyme-substrate complex.
- to form a complex with.
- to form a complex.
- made up of various interconnected parts; composite
- (of thoughts, writing, etc) intricate or involved
- grammar
- (of a word) containing at least one bound form
- (of a noun phrase) containing both a lexical noun and an embedded clause, as for example the italicized parts of the following sentence: I didn't know the man who served me
- (of a sentence) formed by subordination of one clause to another
- of or involving one or more complex numbers
- a whole made up of interconnected or related parts
- a group of emotional ideas or impulses that have been banished from the conscious mind but that continue to influence a person's behaviour
- an obsession or excessive fear
- a chemical compound in which molecules, groups, or ions are attached to a central metal atom, esp a transition metal atom, by coordinate bonds
- any chemical compound in which one molecule is linked to another by a coordinate bond
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