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complexity

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. 2 (context countable English) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, "composite nature," from complex (adj.) + -ity . Meaning "intricacy" is from 1790. Meaning "a complex condition" is from 1794.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexness ] [ant: simplicity ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Complexity , in general usage, tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement. Complexity may also refer to: Complex systems Time complexity Mathematics and computing Computational complexity theory , in computer science ...

Usage examples of complexity.

Outside, in the warehouse of time, the adaptor I look for must bridge the paradoxical equivalence of message and notch, caprice and complexity, theme and variation.

Formally, he was replying to the ideal of clear and harmonious beauty in the Tolstoy epic by affirming the possibility of a new aesthetics which could express modern chaos and complexity.

Fifth Level of Complexity as far beyond intelligence as intelligence is from amoebic life, or life from inert matter.

The methods of science, or at least biological science, they would maintain, cannot provide understanding of the mind, either because the mind is fundamentally inaccessible to materialist investigation or because our techniques, while they may be applicable to understanding animal brains and behaviour, fail when confronted with the complexities of human thought, speech and social existence.

At fifty-two, Bandar, a close confidant of both Bushes, is a man of profound complexities, a cheery, educated man of enormous appetites.

Before her drifted the end result of billions of years of coelenterate evolution, a collective organism of unimagined complexity.

Immediately after that, an onset of huge vibrations had taken place as the condition of the Decoupler escalated to a whole new level of complexity.

Were all my dreams a delusionary system of unparalleled complexity and influence, or was I merely a madman who happened to be right?

I have always enjoyed politics, both the complexities and strategies of the game and the vast, Dickensian comedy of it all.

Complexity thus emerges from the interpenetration of processes of differentiation and integration.

Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architecture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictorial art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, systems of philosophy, of mathematics, of knowledge, of nature, prodigious technical methods, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics to support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human materialthese are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas.

I understood the thinking of Gurjan Tor in all its insidious complexity.

Although it is traditional to have Oolongs with Chinese dishes, one may argue that rich black Yunnan or Keemun teas offer more complexity and layers to the experience of tea pairings.

There was about the Madi tongue a complexity and yet an incompleteness which seemed to bind the tribe to its way, and which certainly entangled any human who tried to learn it.

Hota apologized for its sorry condition, but Magali paid no attention to the disarray and walked over to the wall beside his bed and began to inspect the weathered gray boards, running her forefinger along the black complexities of their grain, appearing to admire them as though they were made of the finest marble.