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implex
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
implex (not comparable)
- Intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.
- c. 1711, Joseph Addison, essay in The Spectator, 9 February 1711/12:
- The fable of every poem is, according to Aristotle’s division, either simple or implex. It is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. The implex fable is thought most perfect: I suppose, because it is more proper to stir up the passion of the reader, and to surprise him with a greater variety of accidents.
- c. 1711, Joseph Addison, essay in The Spectator, 9 February 1711/12:
Noun
implex (plural implexes)
- A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation (the degree of pedigree collapse).
References
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “implex”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “implex”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
implex m or n (feminine singular implexă, masculine plural implecși, feminine and neuter plural implexe)
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