complex (noun)
91Electra complex — noun Psychoanalysis old fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls. Origin early 20th cent.: named after Electra in Greek mythology, who persuaded her brother to kill their mother in revenge for the murder of their father …
92Oedipus complex — noun (in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex. Derivatives Oedipal adjective Oedipally adverb Origin early 20th cent.: by assoc. with Oedipus, who, in …
93Electra complex — noun (countable usually singular) technical the unconscious sexual feelings that a girl is supposed to have towards her father compare Oedipus complex …
94building complex — noun a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures • Syn: ↑complex • Hypernyms: ↑structure, ↑construction • Hyponyms: ↑college, ↑plant, ↑works, ↑ …
95Golgi complex — noun a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) • Syn: ↑Golgi body, ↑Golgi apparatus, ↑dictyosome • Hypernyms: ↑vesicle, ↑cyst • Part Holonyms: ↑ …
96military-industrial complex — noun a country s military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex Dwight David… …
97basal complex — noun : fundamental complex …
98conjugate complex number — noun : one of two complex numbers differing only in the sign of the imaginary part (as a+bi and a bi) …
99fundamental complex — noun 1. : a widespread complex assemblage of highly metamorphic rocks that is the foundation of the geological column : the Archean rocks 2. : an assemblage of metamorphic rocks in any region and of any age that unconformably underlies the… …
100polyploid complex — noun : a complex group of interrelated hybrids produced by the intercrossing of related autopolyploids and allopolyploids that is in some respects comparable to a taxonomic genus compare polyploid series …
