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complex

1. Maths of or involving one or more complex numbers

2. Psychoanal a group of emotional ideas or impulses that have been banished from the conscious mind but that continue to influence a person's behaviour

3. Informal an obsession or excessive fear

4. a chemical compound in which molecules, groups, or ions are attached to a central metal atom, esp a transition metal atom, by coordinate bonds

5. any chemical compound in which one molecule is linked to another by a coordinate bond

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complex [′käm‚pleks]

(geology)

An assemblage of rocks that has been folded together, intricately mixed, involved, or otherwise complicated.

(mathematics)

A space which is represented as a union of simplices which intersect only on their faces.

(medicine)

syndrome

(mineralogy)

Composed of many ingredients.

(psychology)

A group of associated ideas with strong emotional tones, which have been transferred from the conscious mind into the unconscious and which influence the personality.