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Pencil(medicine)
pencil(1)(dictionary)
pencil(2)(dictionary)
Pencil In(money)
The Pencil(casino)
pencil sharpener(dictionary)
pencil drawing(encyclopedia)
eyebrow pencil(dictionary)
mechanical pencil(dictionary)

Pencil In (money) and complex(2) (iou)


Pencil In (money)


Definition: To tentatively or belatedly add something.







complex(2) (iou)



complex noun. M17.
[Latin complexus noun, from pa. ppl stem of complectere (see next); later interpreted as use as noun of COMPLEX adjective.]
A complex whole; a group of related elements; an assemblage of related buildings, units, etc. M17.
leisure complex: see LEISURE noun & adjective.
A. Tucker Names being..necessary for gathering our ideas, and holding them together in a complex. Downside Review Russia is a culture-complex in itself. K. Clark That complex of memories and instincts which are awakened..by the word 'Beauty'. D. Lodge The Inner Ring, an exhilarating complex of tunnels and flyovers.
Chemistry. A substance or species formed by the combination of simpler ones; spec. a species (charged or neutral) in which a central usu. metal atom is bonded to a set of outer or ligand atoms, ions, or molecules (cf. COORDINATION compound). L19.
SYNAPTONEMAL complex.
In Psychoanalysis, a related group of usu. repressed ideas, attitudes, and desires causing mental or behavioural abnormality; colloq. an obsession. E20.
inferiority complex, Oedipus complex, etc.
com'plexant noun (Chemistry) a constituent of a complex; a species which forms a complex: M20.