Complex vs. Unit — What's the Difference?

Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite

An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.

Composed of two or more units

A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.

Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated

A mechanical part or module.

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

An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.

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

A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.

A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts

(Medicine) The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.

A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose

A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.

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

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme

An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear

The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.

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

The lowest positive whole number; one.

Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

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

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

The number one.

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

Ellipsis of international unit

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

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

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A member of a military organization.

A network of interconnected systems.

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

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

Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.

An assemblage of related things; a collection.

A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.

An organized cluster of thunderstorms.

Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.

A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.

An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

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

A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

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

With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.

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

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

(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.

(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.

(math) A complex number.

(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.

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

(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

To form a complex with another substance

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

(transitive) To complicate.

One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

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

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

A work unit.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

A physically large person.

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;

A penis, especially a large one.

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

For each unit.

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

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

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

A single thing or person.

Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts;

The least whole number; one.

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;

An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;

A single undivided whole;

A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;

An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;