What is a complex?

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<SPAN class=infl-inline>complex (<A title=Appendix:Glossary href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable\">comparative</A> <SPAN class=\"form-of comparative-form-of\">more complex</SPAN>, <A title=Appendix:Glossary href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable\">superlative</A> <SPAN class=\"form-of superlative-form-of\">most complex</SPAN>)</SPAN>

  1. Made up of multiple parts; <A title=intricate href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intricate\">intricate</A> or <A title=detailed href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/detailed\">detailed</A>.

  2. Not <A title=simple href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simple\">simple</A> or <A title=straightforward href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/straightforward\">straightforward</A>.

  3. <SPAN class=ib-brac><SPAN class=qualifier-brac>(</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=ib-content><SPAN class=qualifier-content>mathematics</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=ib-brac><SPAN class=qualifier-brac>)</SPAN></SPAN> Of a number, of the form a + bi, where a and b are <A title=\"real number\" href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/real number\">real numbers</A> and i is the <A title=\"square root\" href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/square root\">square root</A> of −1.

    complex function

  4. <SPAN class=ib-brac><SPAN class=qualifier-brac>(</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=ib-content><SPAN class=qualifier-content>geometry</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=ib-brac><SPAN class=qualifier-brac>)</SPAN></SPAN> A <A title=curve href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curve\">curve</A>, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself

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