complex Adjective
( complex number)
( en adjective)
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- a complex''' being; a '''complex idea
* John Locke
- Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex ; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
* Whewell
- When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex .
(mathematics) Of a number, of the form a + bi'', where ''a'' and ''b'' are real numbers and ''i is a square root of −1.
- complex function
(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
Synonyms
* (not simple) complicated, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, tough
Antonyms
* (not simple) basic, easy, simple, straightforward
Derived terms
* complexity
* complexness
Related terms
* complexion
* (mathematics) symplectic
Noun
A problem.
A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
Assemblage of related things; collection.
* South
- This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
A psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
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An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
, magazine=( American Scientist), title= In the News
, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Derived terms
* military-entertainment complex
* military-industrial complex
* Oedipus complex
* prison-industrial complex
* vitamin B complex
* protein complex
* chelate complex
Verb
(es)
(chemistry) To form a complex with another substance
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idiosyncratic English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
- At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic , personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, " Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles ," Time , 26 April:
- British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
Related terms
* idiosyncrasy
* idiosyncratically
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