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Complex vs. Complexion — What's the Difference?

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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