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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
complex/ˈkɒmpleks/

▶adjective

1 consisting of many different and connected parts.

2 not easy to understand; complicated.

3 Mathematics (of a number) containing both a real and an imaginary part.

▶noun

1 an interlinked system; a network.
■ a group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site.

2 Psychoanalysis a related group of repressed or partly repressed emotionally significant ideas which lead to abnormal mental states or behaviour.
■ informal a feeling of disproportionate anxiety about something.

3 Chemistry an ion or molecule in which one or more groups are linked to a metal atom by coordinate bonds.

▶verb Chemistry make (an atom or compound) form a complex with another.

– derivatives
complexation noun (Chemistry),
complexity noun (pl. complexities),
complexly adverb.

– origin C17 (as n.): from L. complexus, from complectere ‘embrace, comprise’, later assoc. with complexus ‘plaited’; the adjective is partly via Fr. complexe.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leisure centre (or complex)

▶noun Brit. a public building or complex offering facilities for sport and recreation.

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