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Complex

adjective

Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts. "A complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

noun

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts. Synonym: composite.

A compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated. Synonym: coordination compound.

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

A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures. Synonym: building complex.

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"Complex" Quotes from Famous Books

... intellectual plane of present-day civilization demands more of us than the world demanded then, when the avenues to honor and to power lay over fields of conquest, and the passport to favor was the sword. The complex problems of today call for a more thorough cultivation of our mental powers, which, to bring into play upon the multifarious concerns of our life, is the object of broad education. A well cultivated mind makes a man monarch of all that ...

— A Fleece of Gold - Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece • Charles Stewart Given

... plunging came to our ears, and the effect of his possible failure received consideration, or I thought of the business explosion which would follow any open breach between Jim and Cornish (though this seemed too remote for serious consideration), I began to ponder on the enormously complex system of ...

— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... aspire to journalistic success are to be found in his prose. He has in the first place the gift of perfect lucidity no matter how complicated the subject he is expounding; such a book as his Complete English Tradesman is full of passages in which complex and difficult subject-matter is set forth so plainly and clearly that the least literate of his readers could have no doubt of his understanding it. He has also an amazingly exact acquaintance with the technicalities of all kinds of trades ...

— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair

... of the well, which I have drawn as accurately as possible (not an easy thing to do when one is standing upon a rope ladder), will give an idea of the form of this strange pocket formed in the limestone of the mountain through the most complex dislocations and erosions. Two lateral pockets attracted my attention because of the enormous quantity of clay and bones that obstructed them. The first, to the left, was about 15 feet from the orifice. When we had entirely emptied it, we ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 • Various

... as impossible as it seems. The operator at the sending station has a small sending key connected by electricity with a relay at the receiving station. By means of a lever and certain complex paraphernalia this key can be used as the sending key for the main apparatus. Thus the station operated by distant control carries on a duplex system of transmission so that both sending and receiving stations are kept in touch ...

— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett

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