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 |
guilt pang | pangs of feeling guilty |
guilt guilty conscience guilt feelings guilt trip | remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense |
survivor guilt | a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others, derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died, survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust |
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 |
guilt guiltiness ! | the state of having committed an offense |
guilt by association | the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty |
complex absence | an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes) |
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 |
guilt-ridden | feeling or revealing a sense of guilt, so guilt-ridden he could not face his father |
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 |