Complex vs. Building — What's the Difference?

Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons.

Composed of two or more units

A structure with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory.

Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated

The action or trade of constructing something

Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.

A flock of rooks

Consisting of an independent clause and at least one other independent or dependent clause. Used of a sentence.

Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.

A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts

The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.

A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose

(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

In psychoanalysis, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear

Present participle of build

(Medicine) The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.

A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place;

Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

The act of constructing or building something;

Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

The occupants of a building;

A problem. en

A network of interconnected systems.

A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.

An assemblage of related things; a collection.

An organized cluster of thunderstorms.

A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.

(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.

(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.

A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.

(math) A complex number.

(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.

To form a complex with another substance

(transitive) To complicate.

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;

A compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts;