expurgation
castration | the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |
| castration | surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men), bilateral castration results in sterilization |
castration
emasculation | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles |
building complex
complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
| superiority complex | an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance |
complex instruction set computing
complex instruction set computer
CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
Golgi body
Golgi apparatus
Golgi complex
dictyosome | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
complex
composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
| complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
| complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
Oedipus complex
Oedipal complex | a complex of males, desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father, said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved |
| Electra complex | a complex of females, sexual attraction to the father |
| inferiority complex | a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated |
| military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
| histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
retirement community
retirement complex | a planned community for residents who have retired from an active working life |
Magnoliidae
subclass Magnoliidae
ranalian complex | a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants, contains families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, sometimes classified as a superorder |
complex number
complex quantity
imaginary number
imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form abi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of - |
| complex conjugate | either of two complex numbers whose real parts are identical and whose imaginary parts differ only in sign |
imaginary part
imaginary part of a complex number | the part of a complex number that has the square root of - as a factor |
complex fraction
compound fraction | a fraction with fractions in the numerator or denominator |
| complex absence | an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes) |
| castration anxiety | (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions, originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women |
complex
coordination compound | a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated |
Bomplex vitamin
B complex
vitamin B complex
vitamin B
B vitamin
B | originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins |
| complex | complicated in structure, consisting of interconnected parts, a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody, a complex mass of diverse laws and customs |