complection

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These kinds of false dilemmas are a classic symptom of complection.

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Quick take

Uncommon spelling of complexion. [The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of complection gathered in one view.

noun

Uncommon spelling of complexion. [The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for complection.

noun

Uncommon spelling of complexion. [The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.]

See also: complexion, skin-colour, skin-color

Example sentences

These kinds of false dilemmas are a classic symptom of complection.

But this false dilemma has all the hallmarks of complection.

Her face is less puffy, complection has improved, etc.

> FanDuel raised $400M in four years This changes the complection of the whole article!

The only thing that you get from its presentation as a higher order function is reusing function composition which I view as bearing all the hallmarks of complection.

Not because that approach wouldn't work, but to me a clear sign of complection would be conflating the medium of data storage (a database) and the business rules that govern the data itself.

But if you want runnable code, I've included Clojure below that translates between the two representations (there's some annoying multi-arity stuff I haven't handled very rigorously, but that's mainly an artifact of the complection in the traditional Clojure representation of transducers and goes away when you think of them as just `a -> List<b>`).