complex
IPA: kˈɑmpɫɛks
noun
- A problem.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (psychoanalysis) A collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition
- (informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
verb
- (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
- (transitive) To complicate.
adjective
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
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