complex number
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 Com·plex a.
 1. Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
    Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.   --Locke.
 2. Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.
    When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex.   --Whewell.
 Complex fraction. See Fraction.
 Complex number Math., in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + b√-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.
 Syn: -- See Intricate.


 complex number
      n : a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and
          i is the square root of -1 [syn: complex quantity, {imaginary
          number]