different between apartment vs complex

English

Alternative forms

• APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
• apt.

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
• (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA^(key): /??p??t.m?nt/

Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

   • By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
   • 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

     The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Derived terms

• apartment building
• apartment block

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
• ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)

Translations

See also

• tenement

Malay

Noun

apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)

1. apartment

English

Etymology

From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complect? (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complect. Doublet of complexus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/, /?k?m.pl?ks/
• (US) enPR: k?mpl?ks, k?m'pl?ks; IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/, /?k?mpl?ks/

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m.pl?ks/
• (US) enPR: k?m'pl?ks, IPA^(key): /?k?mpl?ks/

Adjective

complex (comparative complexer or more complex, superlative complexest or most complex)

1. Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

   • Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.

2. Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is complex and difficult.

3. (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of ?1.

4. (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

5. (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

6. (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Synonyms

• (not simple): complicated, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, tough

Antonyms

• (not simple): basic, easy, simple, simplex, straightforward

Derived terms

• complex function
• complexify
• complexity
• complexness
• pseudocomplex

Related terms

• complexion
• (mathematics): symplectic

Translations

Noun

complex (plural complexes)

1. A problem. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. A network of interconnected systems.

3. A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
4. An assemblage of related things; a collection.

   • This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.

   1. An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
   2. A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
   3. (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
5. (psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
6. (informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

7. (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.
8. (mathematics) A complex number.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

complex (third-person singular simple present complexes, present participle complexing, simple past and past participle complexed)

1. (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
2. (transitive) To complicate.

Translations

Further reading

• complex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• complex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• complex at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pl?ks/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pl?ks/

Adjective

complex (feminine complexa, masculine plural complexos, feminine plural complexes)

1. complex

   Antonyms: simple, senzill

Derived terms

• nombre complex

Related terms

• complexitat

Noun

complex m (plural complexos)

1. complex (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “complex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “complex” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “complex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “complex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French complexe or German komplex, from Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/
• Hyphenation: com?plex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

complex (comparative complexer, superlative meest complex or complext)

1. complex (composite)
2. complex (complicated)
3. (mathematics) complex (containing an imaginary component or involving imaginary numbers)

Inflection

Derived terms

• complex getal
• complexiteit

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kompleks

Noun

complex n (plural complexen, diminutive complexje n)

1. complex (collection of buildings or facilities with a common purpose)
2. (psychoanalysis) complex (abnormal mental state caused by repression)

Derived terms

• gebouwencomplex
• inferioriteitscomplex
• meerderwaarigheidscomplex
• minderwaardigheidscomplex
• sportcomplex
• superioriteitscomplex
• tempelcomplex

Related terms

• complicatie
• gecompliceerd

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kompleks

Romanian

Etymology

From French complexe, from Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?pleks]

Adjective

complex m or n (feminine singular complex?, masculine plural complec?i, feminine and neuter plural complexe)

1. complex

Declension

Antonyms

• simplu

Related terms

• complexitate

Further reading

• complex in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)