intricacy GRE专八

In software engineering, the degree of complication of a system or system component, determined by such factors as the number and intricacy of interfaces, the number and intricacy of conditional branches, the degree of nesting, the types of data structures, and other system characteristics.

在软件工程中，系统或系统组成部分的复杂程度由下述因素确定：接口的数量程度、条件转移的数量程度、嵌套的深度、数据结构的类型，以及其它一些系统特性。