apoplexy | (noun) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain | Synonyms: cerebrovascular accident, CVA, stroke |
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complex | (adjective) complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts | - |
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(adjective) difficult to analyze or understand | Synonyms: complicated |
(noun) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures | Synonyms: building complex |
(noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: composite |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior | - |
(noun) a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated | Synonyms: coordination compound |
complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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(verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
complexion | (noun) the coloring of a person's face | Synonyms: skin color, skin colour |
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(noun) (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament | - |
(noun) texture and appearance of the skin of the face | - |
(noun) a point of view or general attitude or inclination | - |
(noun) a combination that results from coupling or interlinking | - |
(verb) give a certain color to | - |
complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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complexly | (adverb) in a complex manner | - |
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complexness | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexity |
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duplex | (adjective) allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously | - |
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(adjective) (used technically of a device or process) having two parts | - |
(noun) an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase | Synonyms: duplex apartment |
(noun) a house with two units sharing a common wall | Synonyms: duplex house, semidetached house |
(verb) change into a duplex | - |
epiplexis | (noun) a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them | - |
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googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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multiplex | (adjective) having many parts or aspects | - |
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(adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: manifold |
(noun) a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building | - |
(noun) communicates two or more signals over a common channel | - |
multiplexer | (noun) a device that can interleave two or more activities | - |
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perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
perplexed | (adjective) full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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perplexedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: confoundedly |
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perplexing | (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, puzzling |
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perplexity | (noun) trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | - |
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plexiglass | (noun) a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | Synonyms: Plexiglas |
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pleximeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: plessimeter |
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pleximetry | (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: percussion |
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plexor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: percussor, plessor |
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plexus | (noun) a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels | Synonyms: rete |
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quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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simplex | (adjective) having only one part or element | - |
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(adjective) allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time | - |
triplex | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, treble, triple |
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unperplexed | (adjective) experiencing no difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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