Definitions for complex

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complex com·plex

Spelling: [adjective, verb kuh m-pleks, kom-pleks;

IPA: /adjective, verb kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɒm plɛks; noun ˈkɒm plɛks/

Complex is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in complex (celmopx).

Definitions for complex

noun

1. an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.:
2. Psychology. a system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses that is usually repressed and that gives rise to abnormal or pathological behavior.
3. a fixed idea; an obsessive notion.
4. Mathematics. an arbitrary set of elements of a group. a collection of simplexes having specified properties.
5. Also called coordination compound. Chemistry. a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion. Compare ligand (def 2).
6. Biochemistry. an entity composed of molecules in which the constituents maintain much of their chemical identity:

adjective

1. composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite:
2. characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc.:
3. so complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with:
4. Grammar. (of a word) consisting of two parts, at least one of which is a bound form, as childish, which consists of the word child and the bound form -ish. complex sentence.
5. Mathematics. pertaining to or using complex numbers:

verb (used with object)

1. Chemistry. to form a complex with.

verb (used without object)

1. Chemistry. to form a complex.

Origin of complex

1645-55; 1905-10 for def 7; (adj.) Latin complexus, past participle of complectī, complectere to embrace, encompass, include, equivalent to complect- (see complect

Examples for complex

Yours must be the spirit of the times, strenuous, complex, democratic.

Through them from the garden and the fields entered a complex of sweet odors.

Medication can now be taken in a single pill rather than a complex cocktail of tablets.

If Congress struggles to keep the lights on, how could it deal with issues as complex as police brutality?

KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.

We are a huge, complex, diverse country still offering freedom, opportunity and hope.

It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.

But the facts are far too complex to enable us thus to rush hastily to an answer.

The case of Yates was by all odds the most complex and bewildering of the four.

It was a complex task they were asked to do, and every cultural and experiential advantage would be required.