complexity
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Complexity \Com*plex"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Complexities}. [Cf. F.
complexit['e].]
1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
[1913 Webster]
The objects of society are of the greatest possible
complexity. --Burke.
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2. That which is complex; intricacy; complication.
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Many-corridored complexities
Of Arthur's palace. --Tennyson.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
complexity
<algorithm> The level in difficulty in solving mathematically
posed problems as measured by the time, number of steps or
arithmetic operations, or memory space required (called time
complexity, computational complexity, and space complexity,
respectively).
The interesting aspect is usually how complexity scales with
the size of the input (the "{scalability}"), where the size of
the input is described by some number N. Thus an {algorithm}
may have computational complexity O(N^2) (of the order of the
square of the size of the input), in which case if the input
doubles in size, the computation will take four times as many
steps. The ideal is a constant time algorithm (O(1)) or
failing that, O(N).
See also {NP-complete}.
(1994-10-20)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "complexity":
abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness,
complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness,
difficultness, difficulty, esoterica, hairiness, hardness,
inscrutability, intricacy, involvement, knottiness, laboriousness,
onerousness, oppressiveness, profoundness, profundity,
reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness,
toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness
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