entanglement

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
A complicated situation or a mass of twisted things.
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noun
Extra detail
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution., The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)

Examples

Entanglement with the world constitutes an observation.
If you like cosmology, maybe read the document "Inter-universal entanglement in a cyclic multiverse."

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

The act of entangling.
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)

In context

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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.
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[…]

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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[…]
2002, David Robertson, David Professor Robertson, A Dictionary of Modern Politics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 266
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.
2018 June 30, Katrina O'Loughlin, Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 110
In his article, Bell demonstrated that quantum theory requires entanglement; the strange connectedness is an inescapable feature of the equations.
2014 November 14, David Kaiser, “Is Quantum Entanglement Real?”, in New York Times

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From entangle + -ment.