Meaning of complex in English

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/ ˈkɒm.pleks / us

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/ ˈkɑːm.pleks /

complex noun [C] ( BUILDING )

a large building with various connected rooms or a related group of buildings: a shopping/sports and leisure complex US They live in a large apartment complex. More examples Fewer examples

They're planning to develop the wholesite into a shopping complex.
The hotel complex was a honeycomb of rooms and courtyards .
The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
The office complex has an on-sitenursery.
They're building a new sports complex on the waterside.

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complex noun [C] ( BAD FEELING )

a particular anxiety or unconscious fear that a person has, especially as a result of an unpleasant experience that they have had in the past or because they have a low opinion of their own worth:

an inferiority complex I think he's got a complex about being bald. Don't go on about her weight - you'll give her a complex! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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complex | American Dictionary

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/ kəmˈpleks , ˈkɑm·pleks / having many parts related to each other in ways that may be difficult to understand: The question of who is legally responsible is a complex issue.

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/ kəmˈplek·sɪ·t̬i / [ U ] You must understand the variety and complexity of tasks assigned to the police.

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complex noun [C] ( BUILDING )

a group of buildings that are related, or a large building having different parts: an apartment complex for elderly people

complex noun [C] ( ATTITUDES )

a group of attitudes and feelings that influence a person’s behavior, often in a negative way: an inferiority complex (Definition of complex from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of complex

This exchangeable end effector permits the robot to perform more complex duties.

These are now seen to be only a small element of a complex system driven by concerns other than the purely cognitive.

Personhood is the complex of physical, spiritual, psychological and social aspects that make up an individual life.

It is not clear how dynamical systems serve as a psychological explanation as opposed to a complex description of behavior.

The government, however, has a strong steering role with complex regulations affecting virtually every aspect of the health system.

The regulations for coverage of nonexcluded medical aids are complex and therefore are only briefly described.

It appears that endogenous and/or exogenous serotonin in preimplantation embryos could be involved in complex autocrine/paracrine regulations of embryo development and embryo-maternal interactions.

The authors argue that the olfactory-hippocampal-dorsal cortex circuit was needed to create complex olfactory-based representations of space.

This makes it difficult to implement the idea that associations apply to increasingly complex representations.

According to this hypothesis, neither random errors nor morphologically and syntactically more complex structures would be expected.

We did not attempt to estimate the spatiotemporal structure of the receptive fields of complex cells.

The final chapter gives an inspiring overview of the complex problems surrounding market and non-market economic organisation.

This conflicting opinion, together with complex cultural and socioeconomic issues surrounding wetlands, has given rise to a plethora of views on how to develop wetlands.

The two membranes join at the nuclear pore membrane, which surrounds the nuclear pore complexes.

The rules for organizing frameworks and assigning surfaces to them are complex and not fully-understood.

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