What's the difference between complexity and intricacy?

Complexity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
  • (n.) That which is complex; intricacy; complication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
  • (2) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
  • (3) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (4) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (6) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
  • (7) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
  • (8) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (9) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (10) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
  • (11) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
  • (12) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (13) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (14) Electron spin resonance studies indicate the formation of two vanadyl complexes that are 1:1 in vanadyl and deferoxamine, but have two or three bound hydroxamate groups.
  • (15) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
  • (16) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
  • (17) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
  • (18) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
  • (19) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
  • (20) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.

Intricacy


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is the one who had to transmit exactly what I had said to the referee and there are intricacies and nuance in the language where you have “Por qué” and “Porque”, and you have the word “negro” as it is used in the Spanish language and how it can be used in English.
  • (2) This progress has come from an increasing knowledge of cancer biology and pharmacology and the application of this knowledge to improved design of clinical trials, with due consideration to the intricacies of the natural history of each disease in question.
  • (3) It is certainly more likely to attract attention than arguments about the intricacies of a currency union.
  • (4) There were two principles on which James was immoveable: that the intricacy of a plot could never make up for poor writing ("I find with my own reading, that it doesn't matter how exciting a book is: if it's badly written one just can't be bothered with it.
  • (5) Instead of talking about the intricacies of tax, it offered spectacle and civil disobedience – and linked tax avoidance to the cuts.
  • (6) The aim of this review is to describe the genetic approaches used to unravel the intricacies of mitochondrial biogenesis and to summarize recent insights gained from their application.
  • (7) It's accessible, but a very deep rabbit-hole to go down once you get into its intricacies.
  • (8) This study, therefore, showed that only with a multivariate approach will the intricacies of the craniofacial skeleton be interpreted.
  • (9) To further delineate the intricacies of the immune response, a longitudinal profile of immunologic parameters was investigated in burned patients with specific reference to clinical criteria (resuscitation, plasma exchange, surgical excisions, sepsis).
  • (10) There was more levity in a panel for the unlikely hit political drama Borgen about the intricacies of Danish coalition government, which brought together actors Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbaek - who played prime minister Birgitte Nyborg and her spin doctor Kasper Juul.
  • (11) 20 birth fractures of the clavicule associated with brachial plexus palsies are recorded on account of their pathogenic, diagnostic and therapeutic intricacies.
  • (12) The Oregon Court of Appeals, using the traditional antitrust analysis applied to other industries for decades, failed to consider the intricacies that exist within the health care industry.
  • (13) Research continues to explore the intricacies of developmental regulation of such genes and phenotypic consequences of mammalian gene transfer.
  • (14) The section on pharmacy administration and personnel management is initiated in the middle of program after the residents have gained an appreciation of the intricacies of the department.
  • (15) The intricacies of innate and environmental factors takes the complexity of just such a situation into account.
  • (16) I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet.” Chris Christie , meanwhile, was unimpressed by Cruz and Rubio’s wrangling over the intricacies of legislation.
  • (17) Although management methods for dealing with the administrative intricacies are commonly not part of academic training, guidelines may be derived from medical practice.
  • (18) They can call it sport, they can call it tradition, they can write about its beauty, its poetry and its intricacy, they can invoke Hemingway and write about skill and ritual; for me that day the bullfight was a celebration of cruelty, of mob rule, of death, of picking on something weaker then you and amusing yourself at its expense.
  • (19) The field must also examine the intricacies of designing curricula with the same kind of commitment and passion it has demonstrated in the last 30 years in investigating the etiology and organic basis of learning disabilities.
  • (20) A person's worth calibrated by its rankings, the mystifications of the fine difference, GBE or DBE, a code that specifies Bob Geldof KBE and not Sir Bob Geldof, allegedly impartial committees: what do all these solemn intricacies matter when the outcome so often flows from friendship and lobbying, or a government's attempts to be popular, or a financial contribution to a political party?