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COMPLEXITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being intricate and compounded
Example:
he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers
Synonyms:
complexity; complexness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("complexity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
simple (having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved)
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "complexity"):
complicatedness; complication; knottiness; tortuousness (puzzling complexity)
elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution (marked by elaborately complex detail)
tapestry (something that resembles a tapestry in its intricacy)
trickiness (the quality of requiring skill or caution)
Antonym:
simplicity (the quality of being simple or uncompounded)
Derivation:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
complexify (make complex)
Context examples:
Each MAPKK, however, can be activated by more than one MAPKKK, increasing the complexity and diversity of MAPK signalling.
(MAPK Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The complexity of the chemical structure of lignin can be explained by random polymerizations involving one of four main phenoxyl radicals formed upon the action of peroxidase.
(Lignin, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
The results provide unprecedented detail of our genetic history, and highlights how it is characterised by multiple layers of complexity.
(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)
A variant of adenomyoma associated with glandular architectural complexity is called atypical polypoid adenomyoma.
(Adenomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
There was no enrichment of a single predominant genetic pathway in the data, reflecting the complexity of blood pressure influences.
(The genetics of blood pressure, NIH)
Appreciating this complexity is important for guiding the development of therapies that target the complement immune system to treat degenerative diseases of the retina.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
Understanding the physics of these violent events allows scientists to better understand how the seeds of chemical complexity and life itself have been scattered in space and time in our Milky Way galaxy.
(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)
However, the structural complexity and mixed-metal composition are the very reasons the materials exhibit unique transport properties.
(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)
However, scientific understanding of the proteome has lagged behind that of the genome, partly because of the proteome’s complexities.
(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)
The findings underscore the complexity of color perception.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
