ALL meanings of complexity
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C c - uncountable noun complexity Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way. 3
- noun complexity the state or quality of being intricate or complex 3
- noun complexity something intricate or complex; complication 3
- noun complexity the condition or quality of being complex 3
- noun complexity anything complex or intricate; complication 3
- noun plural complexity the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life. 1
- noun plural complexity something complex: the complexities of foreign policy. 1
- noun complexity intricacy 1
- noun complexity complicated nature 1
- noun Definition of complexity in Technology (algorithm) The level in difficulty in solving mathematically posed problems as measured by the time, number of steps or arithmetic operations, or memory space required (called time complexity, computational complexity, and space complexity, respectively). The interesting aspect is usually how complexity scales with the size of the input (the "scalability"), where the size of the input is described by some number N. Thus an algorithm may have computational complexity O(N^2) (of the order of the square of the size of the input), in which case if the input doubles in size, the computation will take four times as many steps. The ideal is a constant time algorithm (O(1)) or failing that, O(N). See also NP-complete. 1
- noun complexity The state or quality of being intricate or complicated. 1
- noun complexity (Uncountable Noun) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. 0
- noun complexity (Countable Noun) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication. 0