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A group of memories, ideas, and impulses that gather around a common emotional theme and act together, often outside a person's full awareness, so that touching the theme can trigger the whole group at once. Jung's 1910 The Association Method traced these groupings through delays and disturbances in word-association tests and called them feeling-toned complexes, and later popular terms like the inferiority complex kept the same idea of a charged mental cluster. The referent here is a pattern inside one person's mind, felt and partly hidden, and it is not a metal bonded to surrounding molecules, a number with a real and an imaginary part, or a set of look-alike species.[1]
A structure in which a central metal atom or ion is surrounded by, and bonded to, a set of molecules or ions called ligands, which donate electron pairs to the metal to form the arrangement. Werner's 1893 Beitrag zur Konstitution anorganischer Verbindungen proposed that a metal centre holds a fixed number of such neighbours in a definite geometry, founding coordination chemistry and its account of colour, shape, and reactivity. The referent is a real chemical unit built around a metal, counted by its ligands and geometry, and it has nothing to do with a cluster of charged ideas, a number with an imaginary part, or a group of near-identical organisms.[2]
A number written as a plus b times i, joining an ordinary real part to an imaginary part, where i is a quantity whose square is minus one. Nahin's 2010 history An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the square root of minus one follows how such numbers moved from a suspicious trick to a settled foundation, pictured as points on the complex plane with one axis real and one imaginary. The referent is a formal object obeying exact rules of arithmetic, located by two coordinates, and it is unrelated to a hidden emotional cluster, a metal ringed by ligands, or a tangle of look-alike species.[3]
A group of closely related species so alike in appearance that the boundaries between them are hard to draw, so that what looks like one kind of organism can turn out to be several. Bickford and colleagues' 2007 Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation showed how genetic and other evidence keeps splitting such look-alike groups into separate species, which biologists then label a species complex. The referent is a set of real organisms whose divisions are blurred, counted by lineages and reproductive limits, and it is not a cluster of charged ideas, a metal bonded to ligands, or a number with an imaginary part.[4]
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