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      complex
      noun
      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.
      (psychology) 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.
      A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
      (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.
      Roots
      plecto-plex · Latin · weave, braid
      Synonyms for complex
      complicatedadjintricateadjconvolutedadjlabyrinthianadjmultifacetedadjlabyrinthineadjcompositeadjdifficultadjcompoundnelaboratevconfusingadj
      Words related to complex
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