Complexity
51complexity — Closely related to variety, a principle of design, this term refers to a way of combining the elements of art in involved ways, to create intricate and complicated relationships. A picture composed of many shapes of different colors, sizes,… …
52complexity — n. Intricacy, complication, entanglement, involved character …
53complexity — n 1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity. 2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle,… …
54complexity — com·plex·i·ty …
55complexity — [kəmˈpleksəti] noun 1) [U] the complicated nature of something 2) complexities [plural] the features of something that make it confusing or difficult to deal with …
56complexity — /kəmˈplɛksəti/ (say kuhm pleksuhtee) noun (plural complexities) 1. the state or quality of being complex; intricacy. 2. something complex …
57complexity theory — The theory that processes with a large number of seemingly independent agents can spontaneously organize themselves into a coherent system. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
58Computational complexity theory — is a branch of the theory of computation in theoretical computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty, and relating those classes to each other. In this context, a… …
59Irreducible complexity — This article covers irreducible complexity as used by those who argue for intelligent design. For information on irreducible complexity as used in Systems Theory, see Irreducible complexity (Emergence). Irreducible complexity (IC) is an argument… …
60Kolmogorov complexity — In algorithmic information theory (a subfield of computer science), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is a measure of the computational resources needed to specify the object. It is named after Soviet Russian… …
