English
hypercomplexhypercomplex
From hyper- + complex.
Formed from hyper- + complex
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Latin plectō ‘to weave, braid’
Latin complector ‘to entwine, encircle’
Latin complexus
French complexe ‘complex’
English complex
Today it means
adj Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
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