Complex vs. Complexion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Complex and Complexion
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Complex
Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite
Complex equipment with multiple components.
Complexion
Complexion in humans is the natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially on the face.
Complex
Composed of two or more units
A complex carbohydrate.
Complexion
The natural colour, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face
A smooth, pale complexion
Complex
Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated
A complex problem.
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Complexion
The general aspect or character of something
The complexion of the game changed
Successive governments of all complexions
Complex
Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.
Complexion
The natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, especially of the face.
Complex
Consisting of an independent clause and at least one other independent or dependent clause. Used of a sentence.
Complexion
General character, aspect, or appearance
Findings that will alter the complexion of the problem.
Complex
A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts
A complex of cities and suburbs.
The military-industrial complex.
Complexion
A viewpoint, inclination, or attitude
A conservative political complexion.
Complex
A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose
A sports complex.
Complexion
The combination of the four humors of cold, heat, moistness, and dryness in specific proportions, thought in ancient and medieval physiology to control the temperament and the constitution of the body.
Complex
In psychoanalysis, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.
Complexion
The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
Complex
An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear
Has a complex about his weight.
Complexion
The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
A rugged complexion
A sunburnt complexion
Complex
(Medicine) The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.
Complexion
(figuratively) The outward appearance of something.
Complex
Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
A complex being; a complex idea
Complexion
Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
Complex
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
Complexion
An arrangement.
Complex
Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
Complex number
Function of a complex variable
Complexion
(transitive) To give a colour to.
Complex
Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
Complex function
Complexion
The state of being complex; complexity.
Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it.
Complex
Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
Complex polynomial
Complex algebraic variety
Complexion
A combination; a complex.
This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms.
Complex
(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
Complexion
The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.
If his complexion incline him to melancholy.
It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Complex
A problem. en
Complexion
The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
Tall was her stature, her complexion dark.
Between the pale complexion of true love,And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain.
Complex
A network of interconnected systems.
Military-industrial complex
Complexion
The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.
Complex
A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
Complexion
The coloring of a person's face
Complex
An assemblage of related things; a collection.
Complexion
A combination that results from coupling or interlinking;
Diphthongs are complexions of vowels
Complex
An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
Complexion
A point of view or general attitude or inclination;
He altered the complexion of his times
A liberal political complexion
Complex
A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
The fire complex began as two separate fires.
Complexion
Texture and appearance of the skin of the face
Complex
(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
Complexion
(obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament
Complex
(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
Complexion
Give a certain color to;
The setting sun complexioned the hills
Complex
A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
Complex
(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.
Complex
(math) A complex number.
Complex
(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
Complex
To form a complex with another substance
Complex
(transitive) To complicate.
Complex
Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.
Complex
Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.
When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex.
Complex
Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.
This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.
Complex
A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;
The complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town
Complex
A compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
Complex
(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
Complex
A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts;
A complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody
A complex mass of diverse laws and customs
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