ALL meanings of over-complex
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O o - adjective over-complex composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system. 1
- adjective over-complex characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc.: complex machinery. 1
- adjective over-complex so complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with: a complex problem. 1
- adjective over-complex Grammar. (of a word) consisting of two parts, at least one of which is a bound form, as childish, which consists of the word child and the bound form -ish. complex sentence. 1
- adjective over-complex Mathematics. pertaining to or using complex numbers: complex methods; complex vector space. 1
- noun over-complex an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex. 1
- noun over-complex Psychology. a system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses that is usually repressed and that gives rise to abnormal or pathological behavior. 1
- noun over-complex a fixed idea; an obsessive notion. 1
- noun over-complex Mathematics. an arbitrary set of elements of a group. a collection of simplexes having specified properties. 1
- noun over-complex Also called coordination compound. Chemistry. a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion. Compare ligand (def 2). 1
- noun over-complex Biochemistry. an entity composed of molecules in which the constituents maintain much of their chemical identity: receptor-hormone complex, enzyme-substrate complex. 1
- verb with object over-complex Chemistry. to form a complex with. 1
- verb without object over-complex Chemistry. to form a complex. 1