complex
/ˈkɑmˌplɛks/ noun C2- A network of interconnected systems. · military–industrial complex
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity. · The fire complex began as two separate fires.
- A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality. · Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
Plural complexes
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Holmes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations.
This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
It's worth our attention, for, granting that the man is a rascal, he is certainly a complex and ingenious one.
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