Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Infolded; intricate; entangled; complicated.
  • noun In mathematics, a doubly infinite system of surfaces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex
  • noun A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation

Etymologies

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From Latin implexus

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Examples

  • Addison got his affected word implex by reading Aristotle through the translation and notes of André Dacier.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • The fable is plainly implex, formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad; and many artifices of diversification are employed, with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models.

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • The fable is plainly implex, formed rather from the "Odyssey" than the "Iliad;" and many artifices of diversification are employed, with the skill of a man acquainted with the beet models.

    Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Thanking Aarav sir and off course my QQAD mates like implex, slam, selebrating life, dewan iitr, grippened and many more.

    unknown title 2009

  • The method in this case depends a lot on the participants, and with people like gripened, implex, dewan and so on, apart from Aarav Sir (it goes without saying that he has a major major role), ensured that the discussion was healthy and exhaustive.

    unknown title 2009

  • I was a silent follower of QQAD last year and trust me, that was the only source of my quant prep (not even the mocks). .the ego to solve questions and compete with people like implex and others just motivated me and there were instances when I would ponder over the problem the whole day ... and though I hadn't taken CAT seriously, I owe my 98.2 in Quant in CAT 08 purely to QQAD and NOTHING ELSE.

    unknown title 2009

  • T. (implex, corpore elongato renfim antrorTum latefcei na. veftcula partc anteriorc duplo longtorc et laitore tcr, nato, cipicc feflili diKinflo.

    Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788

  • As foon as I was enabled by my kind hof - tefs, to make proper preparation for my journey, I fet out in the flage coach j taking care to obferve the lelTon, with regard to my drefs, which her Grace of Queenfberry had given me; that is, 1 had adopted Horace's maxim q (/implex munditiis.

    An apology for the life of George Anne Bellamy : late of Covent-Garden theatre 1785

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