complex
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
biology
chemistry
geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectō (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.
Affixes: com-
-plex
Inflected forms:
form: more complex
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: complexer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
form: most complex
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: complexest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
form: complexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: complices
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: complexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: complexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: complexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: complexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
pos: adj
examples: a complex being; a complex idea
The human body is a complex system made up of many layers.
Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
gloss: Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
pos: adj
examples: If, when the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is complex and difficult, and if we are discontented at this, nature, and not the astronomer, must be the object of our displeasure.
gloss: Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
pos: adj
examples: complex number
function of a complex variable
gloss: Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
pos: adj
examples: complex function
gloss: Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
pos: adj
examples: complex polynomial
complex algebraic variety
gloss: A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
pos: adj
gloss: A network of interconnected systems.
pos: noun
examples: military–industrial complex
gloss: A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
pos: noun
examples: The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.
A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.
gloss: An assemblage of related things; a collection.
pos: noun
examples: This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
gloss: An assemblage of related things; a collection.
pos: noun
gloss: An assemblage of related things; a collection.
pos: noun
examples: The fire complex began as two separate fires.
As of early Wednesday, there were at least 25 major wildfires and fire complexes, the term given to multiple fires in a single geographic area, burning in California, Christine McMorrow, a Cal Fire information officer, said.
gloss: An assemblage of related things; a collection.
pos: noun
examples: Since then, a good deal of research has documented and concluded that the nominal species A. fraterculus actually comprises an unresolved complex of cryptic species.
gloss: A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
pos: noun
examples: Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
gloss: A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
pos: noun
examples: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
gloss: A complex number.
pos: noun
examples: The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian.
gloss: A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a complex with another substance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To complicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: complex
complexed
complicate
complicated
convoluted
Gordian
involute
intricate
involutional
involved
knotty
labyrinthal
labyrinthine
manifold
Antonyms: incomplex
noncomplex
noncomplicated
simple
simplex
straightforward
uncomplex
uncomplexed
uncomplicated
unconvoluted
Related words: complexion
symplectic
complexity
complication
Derived words: bicomplex
complex analysis
complex compound
complex conjugate
complex conjugate root theorem
complex conjugation
complex-differentiable
complex fraction
complex function
complex geometry
complexification
complexified
complexify
complexifying
complexin
complex ion
complexity
complex line
complexly
complex marriage
complex measure
complexness
complex number
complexologist
complexology
complexome
complex plane
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
complex projective line
complex question
complex regional pain syndrome
complex sentence
complex transitive
complextro
complex volcano
decomplex
decomplexification
decomplexified
decomplexify
decomplexifying
incomplex
irreducibly complex
multiplex
neotenic complex syndrome
noncomplex
overcomplex
paracomplex
pseudocomplex
split-complex number
surcomplex
tricomplex
ultracomplex
uncomplex
hypercomplex
megacomplex
multicomplex
supercomplex
activated complex
AIDS-related complex
anaphase-promoting complex
animal–industrial complex
antenna complex
apartment complex
Atlas complex
biocomplex
bithorax complex
Bötzinger complex
Cassandra complex
chain complex
chelate complex
Christ complex
Cinderella complex
cineplex
coalplex
cochain complex
complement membrane attack complex
complexability
complexation
complexometric
complexometry
complexone
coordination complex
coordinated complex
crusader complex
CW complex
cyclopentadienyl complex
edifice complex
Electra complex
exciplex
exosome complex
Fashoda complex
flag complex
Frankenstein complex
Ghon complex
Ghon's complex
God complex
Golgi complex
Googleplex
gora complex
guilt complex
hemicomplex
heterocomplex
holocomplex
homocomplex
hydrido complex
hydro complex
immune complex
immunocomplex
inclusion complex
industrial complex
inferiority complex
inner orbital complex
intercomplex
intracomplex
Jocasta complex
junctional complex
K-complex
launch complex
L-complex
leopard complex
Lolita complex
macrocomplex
Madonna/whore complex
Madonna-whore complex
marriage–industrial complex
membrane attack complex
memeplex
messiah complex
metacomplex
metal aquo complex
metal complex
metallocomplex
metroplex
microcomplex
military-entertainment complex
military-industrial complex
military–entertainment complex
military–industrial complex
monosodium glutamate symptom complex
MSG symptom complex
nanocomplex
Napoleon complex
Napoléon complex
nuclear pore complex
nucleocomplex
nuplex
odontocomplex
Oedipus complex
orthoplex
oxocomplex
penal–industrial complex
persecution complex
Phaedra complex
phytocomplex
polycomplex
polyplex
precomplex
prison–industrial complex
protein complex
QRS complex
radiocomplex
Ranke complex
Ranke's complex
savior complex
serocomplex
sexual complex
simplicial complex
species complex
subcomplex
supercluster complex
superiority complex
superior olivary complex
supracomplex
sysplex
technocomplex
ternary complex
tetracomplex
TORCH complex
training complex
vitamin B complex
WAGR complex
Werner complex
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կոմպլեքս
roman: komplekʻs
lang: Basque
word: konplexu
lang: Bulgarian
word: комплексен
roman: kompleksen
lang: Catalan
word: complex
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 複 /复
roman: fuk¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 複 /复
roman: fù
lang: Czech
word: komplexní
lang: Danish
word: kompleks
lang: Dutch
word: complex
lang: Esperanto
word: kompleksa
lang: Finnish
word: kompleksi-
lang: French
word: complexe
lang: Galician
word: complexo
lang: Georgian
word: კომპლექსური
roman: ḳomṗleksuri
lang: German
word: komplex
lang: Greek
word: μιγαδικός
roman: migadikós
lang: Hindi
word: समिश्र
roman: samiśra
lang: Hungarian
word: komplex
lang: Italian
word: complesso
lang: Japanese
word: 複素
roman: fukuso
lang: Polish
word: zespolony
lang: Portuguese
word: complexo
lang: Romanian
word: complex
lang: Russian
word: ко́мплексный
roman: kómpleksnyj
lang: Spanish
word: complexo
lang: Swedish
word: komplex
lang: Thai
word: เชิงซ้อน
roman: chəəng-sɔ́ɔn
lang: Turkish
word: karmaşık
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́мплексний
roman: kómpleksnyj
lang: Urdu
word: مَخْلُوط
roman: maxlūt
lang: Arabic
word: عُقْدَة
roman: ʕuqda
lang: Armenian
word: բարդույթ
roman: barduytʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: комплекс
roman: kompleks
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 情結 /情结
roman: qíngjié
lang: Czech
word: komplex
lang: Finnish
word: kompleksi
lang: German
word: Komplex
lang: Greek
word: σύμπλεγμα
roman: sýmplegma
lang: Hindi
word: मनोग्रंथि
roman: manogranthi
lang: Hungarian
word: komplexus
lang: Indonesian
word: kompleks
lang: Japanese
word: コンプレックス
roman: kompurekkusu
lang: Korean
word: 콤플렉스
roman: kompeullekseu
lang: Malay
word: kompleks
lang: Persian
word: عقده
roman: oqde
lang: Polish
word: kompleks
lang: Russian
word: ко́мплекс
roman: kómpleks
lang: Spanish
word: complejo
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́мплекс
roman: kómpleks
lang: Vietnamese
word: mặc cảm
lang: Vietnamese
word: phức cảm
lang: Armenian
word: համալիր
roman: hamalir
lang: Armenian
word: լրակազմ
roman: lrakazm
lang: Finnish
word: ryhmä
lang: Hungarian
word: együttes
lang: Hungarian
word: összesség