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A network of interconnected systems.

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A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.

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An assemblage of related things; a collection.

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An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.

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(by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

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Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.

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A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.

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A complex number.

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To form a complex with another substance

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To complicate.

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Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

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Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

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(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.

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(of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

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Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

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A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

It was one of many complex issues.

There should be complex interaction between those trends and currents.

The position becomes more complex where an investigation is underway.

It was a complex task of regenerating Docklands, because its diverse areas were enormous.

It is said that there is a complex relationship between the Gospels.

She is no more mysterious and complex than any other person.

The structure of the island is complex.

I'm starting to get a complex.

The changes, however, were too numerous and complex to be dealt with here.

The driver said nothing the rest of the way and dropped them off in front of her apartment complex without asking for directions.

A modern branch of mathematics having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion which used to appear insoluble.

Its composition is somewhat complex.

Prisons.The prisons of France, some of them attached to the ministry of the interior, are complex in their classification.

The Devonian system includes a complex series of deposits, which are of most interest in eastern Australia.

In Velella the pneumatophore becomes of complex structure and sends air-tubes, lined by a chitin and resembling tracheae, down into the compact coenosarc, thus evidently serving a respiratory as well as a hydrostatic function.

The difference is that it is broken up into a complex sinus system.

Pectinibranchia.-In this order there is no longer any trace of bilateral symmetry in the circulatory, respiratory and excretory organs, the topographically right half of the pallial complex having completely disappeared, except the right kidney, which is FIG.

It simply consisted iri the application, to the elucidation of these complex problems, of the exact methods of chemical and physical research.

Although economic motives have become more complex, they have just as much and no more to do with general economic reasoning and analysis than the causes of death with the normal expectation of life, or domestic ideals with the birth-rate.

The essential feature of the asymmetry of Gastropoda is the atrophy or disappearance of the primitively left half of the circumanal complex (the right half in sinistral forms), including the gill, the auricle, the osphradium, the hypobranchial gland and the kidney.

But this is not part of the primitive complex.

The female portion of the duct is more complex.

Unlike the early horses, the later premolars are as complex as the molars; and although there is a well-marked gap between the canine and the premolars, there is only a very short one between the former and the incisors.

Resin soaps are compounds of soda or potash with the complex acids (chiefly abietic) of which coniferous resins consist.

The (primitively) right-hand organs of the complex thus become lefthand, and vice versa.

The campaign of 1812 may, therefore, be considered as resulting, fi-stly, from the complex and cramping effects of the Continental System on a northern land which could not deprive itself of colonial goods; secondly, from Napoleon's refusal to mitigate the anxiety of Alexander on the Polish question; and thirdly, from tie annoyance felt by the tsar at the family matters noticed above.

In other words, the whole mental structure we call knowledge consists, in its simplest equally with its most complex constituents, of the "work of the mind."

It is said that 13,000 such olfactory organs are present on the feeler of a wasp, and 40,000 on the complex antennae of a male cockchafer.

These monkeys are the African representatives of the Indo-Malay langurs (Semnopithecus), with which they agree in their slender build, long limbs and tail, and complex stomachs, although differing by the rudimentary thumb.

Reference has already been made to the silken tube or tent, of simple structure, with an orifice at one or both ends, as the possible origin of all snares, however complex they may be.

The making of soft soap, although thus a much less complex process than hard soap making, is one that demands much skill and experience for its success.

In the first of these the mountain ranges are complex, appearing to radiate from a centre at which lies Merj el-Ghuruk, a small plain about 4 m.

The population of the larger towns is of a much more complex nature.

Yet, the conditions in Palestine during the monarchies reveal grave and complex social problems, marked class distinctions, and constant intercourse and commercial enterprise.

Since Much Smaller Values Are Found For More Complex Molecules, We May Suppose That, In These Cases, The Energy Of Rotation Of A Polyatomic Molecule May Be Greater Than Its Energy Of Translation, Or Else That Heat Is Expended In Splitting Up Molecular Aggregates, And Increasing Energy Of Vibration.

For More Complex Molecules The Radiative And Absorptive Powers Are Known To Be Much Greater.

From the more complex systems of this kind, we pass to the consideration of starclusters, which are systems of stars in which the components are very numerous.

These monkeys are characterized by their lank bodies, long slender limbs and tail, welldeveloped thumbs, absence of cheek-pouches, and complex stomachs.

It is represented by the great complex of ruin mounds known to the Arabs as Nuffar, written by the earlier explorers Niffer, divided into two main parts by the dry bed of the old Shatt-en-Nil (Arakhat).

The great complex of ruin mounds lying S.W.

The axis of the member xQ+x'Q' of the second-order complex Q, Q' (where Q=nq+wr, Q'=nq'+wr' and x, x' are scalars) is parallel to a fixed plane and intersects a fixed transversal, viz.

Human personality, we learn, is the temporary manifestation of a complex organization consisting of "seven principles," which are united and interdependent, yet divided into certain groups, each capable of maintaining temporarily a spurious kind GI personality of its own and sometimes capable of acting, so to speak, as a distinct vehicle of our conscious individual life Each "principle" is composed of its own form of matter, determined and conditioned by its own laws of time, space and motion, and is, as it were, the repository of our various memories and volitions.

Crystals are usually twinned, and are often complex and difficult to decipher.

Tungstic acid closely resembles molybdic acid in combining with phosphoric, arsenious, arsenic, boric, vanadic and silicic acids to form highly complex acids of which a great many salts exist.

It will be seen that, in consequence of this, municipal life in Italy was from the first more complex, the main constituent parts of the population being the capitani, or greater nobles, the valvassori, or lesser nobles (knights) and the people (popolo).

But however completement assujettie Paris might be, its organization, naturally, was immensely more complex than that of hundreds of smaller places which, formally, might stand in an identical relationship to their lords.

The ores may contain a larger proportion of sulphides and complex silver minerals than with the Patio process and still give a satisfactory extraction.

The family, the tribe, the city, the simpler and more complex organisms of the Hellenic polity, were specially under his care and direction.

Others have held that the self has a complex content, the subject self being, as it were, a fuller expression of the object-self (so Bradley); or again the subject self is the active content of the mind, and the object self the passive content which for the moment is exciting the attention.

The most satisfactory and also the most general view is that consciousness is complex and unanalysable.