complexity
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English
Etymology
From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.
Pronunciation
Noun
complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)
- (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
- (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
- 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
- The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.
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Derived terms
- attributional complexity
- biocomplexity
- biocomplexity
- chaoplexity
- chaoplexity
- complexity class
- complexity function
- complexity-hiding proxy
- complexity theory
- computational complexity theory
- cyclomatic complexity
- geocomplexity
- geocomplexity
- hypercomplexity
- hypercomplexity
- incomplexity
- incomplexity
- irreducible complexity
- Kolmogorov complexity
- McCabe's complexity
- overcomplexity
- overcomplexity
- Rademacher complexity
- space complexity
- time complexity
- time-space complexity
- ultracomplexity
- ultracomplexity
- uncomplexity
- uncomplexity
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Translations
the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement
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that which is complex; intricacy; complication
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