entanglement
/ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The most notorious of these was his entanglement of the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis, against the advice of the military, who held him responsible for their embarrassing inability to frighten the USA because he had failed[…]"
- "The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:entanglement."
- "In his article, Bell demonstrated that quantum theory requires entanglement; the strange connectedness is an inescapable feature of the equations."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English entanglen English entangle Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English entanglement From entangle + -ment.