complex nature

collocation in English

meaningsofcomplexandnature

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complex
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/
us
/kɑːmˈpleks/
involving a lot of different but ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/
us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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Their definition makes clear that multilingual education is most of all characterized by itscomplexnature.
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In this series of questions we see once again the heterogeneous,complexnatureof the responses.
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This again highlights thecomplexnatureof nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions for mitochondrial segregation and tissue energetics.
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Partly this is inherent to thecomplexnatureof the genetic contribution to common diseases.
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Also, they have designed and built a few larger programs of a morecomplexnature.
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Understandably in a work of suchcomplexnature, a number of problems arise.
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Editorial 283 perspectives the challenging andcomplexnatureof achieving a primary health care based system.
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This book is designed to help language professionals understand thecomplexnatureof reading.
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These various metaphorical constructs help to describe thecomplexnatureof teacher knowledge.
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This is particularly so if the divine object is understood to have acomplexnature.
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The application chosen is the vertical jump because of itscomplexnature.
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Rather, thecomplexnatureof dementia and dementia care highlight the methodological challenges of investigating complex social phenomena.
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The answer would appear to lie in thecomplexnatureof the ways in which language changes.
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Processes of dissociation and splitting provide especially clear examples of the adaptive andcomplexnatureof development of psychopathology.
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During the last several decades, thecomplexnatureof freezing soils, their thermodynamics, chemistry, and physics have been elucidated.
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Note the 45x off-nadir position of the imager and thecomplexnatureof the strawberry canopy.
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However, these findings also reinforce thecomplexnaturedesigning any instruction aimed at increasing students' linguistic competencies.
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This is due both to thecomplexnatureof the problem and the inadequacy of conventional pension analysis tools.
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A special challenge was the exceedinglycomplexnatureof the samples in which the putative ' microfossils ' occur.
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This potentially far-reaching characteristic of component failures is symptomatic of the dynamic andcomplexnatureof system faults.
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But, there is a real risk in this model of underestimating thecomplexnatureof the patient - provider relationship.
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They are of a verycomplexnature.
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This has resulted in thecomplexnatureof the scheme.
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The inspector also recognised thecomplexnatureof the work.
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These results illustrate thecomplexnatureof density dependence in helminth growth, and how its effects can act both within and among species.
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