complex

[Com·plex]

People who are really good at math can handle complex math problems. The rest of us are all set with simple stuff like the times tables. Use complex to refer to something that is not simple.

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Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Noun
a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

Noun
a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"

Noun
(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person''s behavior

Noun
a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

Adjective
complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

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n.
Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

n.
Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

n.
Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.


Complex

Com"plex , a. [L. complexus, p. p. of complecti to entwine around, comprise; com- + plectere to twist, akin to plicare to fold. See Plait, n.] 1. Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
2. Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.
When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex.
Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + b&root;-1, when a and b are ordinary integers. Syn. -- See Intricate.

Complex

Com"plex, n. [L. complexus] Assemblage of related things; colletion; complication.
This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy a single relation constitute a complex; as, all the lines which meet a given curve make up a complex. The lines which satisfy two relations constitute a congruency of lines; as, the entire system of lines, each one of which meets two given surfaces, is a congruency.

Complexed

Com*plexed" , a. Complex, complicated. [Obs.] "Complexed significations." Sir T. Browne.

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Assemblage of related things; colletion; complication.

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Usage Examples

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

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