complexification
complexification noun: the act or process of making something more complex.
Noun
complexification (usually uncountable, plural complexifications)
- The act or process of making something more complex.
- All this represents a change in American society, and a complexification of it.1918, Hartley Burr Alexander, Liberty and democracy: and other essays in war-time, page 161
- This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time...1955, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, page 48
- An extension from a basis on real numbers to a basis on complex numbers.
Examples of complexification in a sentence
- In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'.1955, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, page 48:
- In Elise Boulding's analysis, the conservative qualities of woman's mysteries chose not to keep pace with the complexification of urban life.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
- For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced complexification1998, Nicholas Rescher, Complexity: A Philosophical Overview, page 56:
- A new complexification occurs when the situation becomes desperate through crashing marginal returns on increasing complicatedness.2002, Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, and G. Bradley Guy (editors), Timothy F.H. Allen, Construction Ecology, Nature as the basis for...
Antonyms of complexification
Forms of complexification
| plural | complexifications |
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Origin of complexification
From complex + -ification.
Words that rhyme with complexification
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about complexification
- What does complexification mean?
- Complexification means the act or process of making something more complex.
- How do you use complexification in a sentence?
- In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'.
- What part of speech is complexification?
- Complexification is a noun.
- What is the plural of complexification?
- The plural of complexification is complexifications.
Words near complexification in the dictionary
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