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) |
complex coordination compound | a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated |
conjugate solution conjugate | a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A |
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 |
conjugate | unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds |
conjugate | undergo conjugation |
conjugate | add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc., conjugate the verb |
conjugate conjugated | of an organic compound, containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond |
conjugate conjugated | formed by the union of two compounds, a conjugated protein |
conjugate | (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets |
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 |
conjugate conjugated coupled | joined together especially in a pair or pairs |