complex concept
- noun
- /ˈkɒmplɛks ˈkɒnsɛpt/
- For example, when teaching complex concepts, some students in the classroom may grasp them quickly while others may struggle.
- understand a complex concept
- more complex concepts
- such a complex concept
So dignity is a complex concept.
- So dignity is a complex concept.
- So someone who can talk to and speak about complex concepts in addition to sexual health in a way that people can understand.
- One of the things I know you're such a proponent of Doctor Younger is helping people, you know, simplify a lot of these complex concepts.
Examples
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Project-based learning permits learners to extend their inquiries in response to complex concepts, questions, or topics.
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Because both biodiversity and ecosystem services are complex concepts, it can be difficult to untangle all of the links between them.
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The public will not understand such a complex concept.
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Information competence is a complex concept.
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Although they are relatively simple to define in theory, biodiversity and ecosystem services are both complex concepts.
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A general focus on library skills and information literacy has now become a complex concept incorporating multiple literacies.
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Rights are complex concepts founded on moral, policy, societal, and cultural ideas.
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Additionally, in many instances, multidimensional graphics help novices understand complex concepts.
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Brilliant's thought provoking math, science and computer science courses help guide you to mastery by taking complex concepts and breaking them up into bite sized, understandable chunks.
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Many students find that calculus is a complex concept that takes time to master.
Antonyms
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an idea that is difficult to understand because it involves many interconnected parts' is directly and transparently derived from 'complex' (consisting of many interrelated, intricate parts) modifying 'concept' (an idea). This simple adjective + noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Complex concept shows a picture of a concept made of many linked parts and so complex, like a puzzle or a knot. Because the parts are connected and affect each other, the whole is hard to understand, so the phrase means 'an idea that is difficult to understand'.