complexity

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being complex.
  2. noun Something complex: a maze of bureaucratic and legalistic complexities.

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  • This complexity, which is evident enough in the poem, is even more evident in the music, where a union of different arts and different ideas is attempted. —  Musicians of To-Day
  • There is a point-some might say a moment-in scientific experimentation known as the complexity cusp. —  Bloodlines
  • This flexibility for users usually results in complex multitier environments, and the responsibility of managing this complexity has been assumed by developers and IT staff. —  BNET Articles
  • Further, the complexity is and coefficients of the recursive equation have a simple independent of the values of σ and —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • All this complexity is an absolute requirement for the huge number of different molecules and chemical interactions that comprise "life". —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
 

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  1. from complex, adjective, + -ity; = F. complexité.
 

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/kəmˈplɛksaɪti/
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