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  1. adjective Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.
  2. adjective Composed of two or more units: a complex carbohydrate.
  3. adjective Involved or intricate, as in structure; complicated.
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  • The walk from the station to her complex was a short one, through a cookie-cutter neighborhood that had probably looked really pretty for the first half-hour or so after the place had been opened. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2002
  • Without people the complex was a ghost town, an impression heightened by the half-light, and the signs of damage from the war. —  Persephone and Hades
  • Carbon-dating shows that the complex is at least 12,000 years old, maybe even 13,000 years old. —  Zach Klein's Universal Feed
  • The most distinct part of the complex is a church, which makes the monastery what it is. —  News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times.
  • Several complexes have reciprocating mechanisms in which the complex is asymmetric, but, over time, all subunits cycle through the same set of conformations. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Latin complexus, past participle of complectī, to entwine; see complect.

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  1. = French complexe = Spanish Portuguese complexo, complex, = Italian complesso, fleshy, strong, powerful, from Latin complexus, past participle of complecti, conplecti, active complectere, complectere, entwine, encircle, compass, infold, from com-, together, + plectere, weave, braid; cf. Late Latin complex, adjective, connected with, confederate (later ult. English complice), from complicare, fold together, from com-, together, + plicare, fold, akin to plectere: see plaid, complicate, v., and complected.
  2. = Spanish Portuguese complexo = Italian complesso, from Latin complexus, a surrounding, embracing, connection, relation, from complecti, conplecti, past participle complexus, conplexus, surround, embrace, include: see complex, adjective The noun complex in modern use depends closely upon the adjective
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