Usually means: Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts.
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  1. complex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. complex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. complex: Collins English Dictionary
  4. complex: Vocabulary.com
  5. Complex, complex: Wordnik
  6. complex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. complex: Wiktionary
  8. complex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. complex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. complex: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. complex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. complex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Complex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. complex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. complex: Rhymezone
  18. complex, complex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. complex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. complex: Free Dictionary
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  23. complex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. complex: Legal dictionary
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  1. Complex (chemistry), complex: Encyclopedia

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  4. complex: Medical dictionary

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  2. Complex: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Complex: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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  5. -complex: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  6. complex: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
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  1. complex: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See complexation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
adjective:  Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
adjective:  (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
adjective:  (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
noun:  A problem.
noun:  A network of interconnected systems.
noun:  A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
noun:  An assemblage of related things; a collection.
noun:  An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
noun:  A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
noun:  (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
noun:  (psychoanalysis) A collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition
noun:  (informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mathematics) A complex number.
noun:  (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
verb:  (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
verb:  (transitive) To complicate.

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