complex – English noun declension

English noun forms of complex

Noun: complex
Singularcomplex
Pluralcomplexes

Sample Sentences

  • military–industrial complex
  • The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry:]
  • A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles. [2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, page 4, column 1:]
  • This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
  • The fire complex began as two separate fires.
  • As of early Wednesday, there were at least 25 major wildfires and fire complexes, the term given to multiple fires in a single geographic area, burning in California, Christine McMorrow, a Cal Fire information officer, said. [2020 September 16, “Millions of acres burn in California as weather improves in Northwest.”, in The New York Times, retrieved 16 Sep 2020:]
  • Since then, a good deal of research has documented and concluded that the nominal species A. fraterculus actually comprises an unresolved complex of cryptic species. [2015 November 26, Mosè Manni et al., “Relevant genetic differentiation among Brazilian populations of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae)”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, →DOI:]
  • Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
  • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. [2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:]
  • The interesting aspect here is that U₃ is irreducible, even though all irreps over the complexes are one-dimensional because ℤ₄ is abelian. [1996, Barry Simon, Representations of Finite and Compact Groups, page 50:]

Nouns inflected like complex

complex,

Etymology

From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectō (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus. See: French Nouns 'complexe', Latin Nouns 'complexus'.