entanglement

noun en·tan·gle·ment \ in-ˈtaŋ-gəl-mənt , en- \

Updated on: 12 May 2018

Definition of entanglement

1 a : the action of entangling : the state of being entangled

b : something that entangles, confuses, or ensnares

a project delayed by legal entanglements

2 : the condition of being deeply involved

their entanglement in politics

Examples of entanglement in a Sentence

his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements

Recent Examples of entanglement from the Web

Elliott Broidy is a very wealthy and legally sophisticated man, who has hired the best legal talent over the years — including David Boies — to deal with his many complex business entanglements.

— paul campos, Daily Intelligencer, "Theory: Playboy Model Who Got $1.6 Million Had Affair With Trump, Not Broidy," 8 May 2018
The gear contributed to a record number of entanglements in 2016.

— katarina zimmer, National Geographic, "Rise in Tailless Whale Sightings Has Scientists Concerned," 7 May 2018
This information reveals how extensively the FBI is reviewing Cohen's job as a fixer for Trump as well as his own personal financial entanglements.

— gloria borger, CNN, "FBI may have seized recorded conversations from Trump's attorney," 13 Apr. 2018
Predictably, their inevitable romantic entanglement overwhelms the environmental message in this sweet, silly 2017 Bollywood musical.

— chris ball, cleveland.com, "Daniel Day-Lewis in 'Phantom Thread,' new on DVD and Blu-ray (review)," 8 Apr. 2018
Currently qubits based on a particle's spin direction must be positioned about 15 nanometers apart—any more, and their entanglement fails.

— charles q. choi, Scientific American, "Quantum Leaps in Quantum Computing?," 1 Dec. 2017
The qubits remain coherent for 100 microseconds at a time, but the entanglement of a qubit pair can be done in about 10 nanoseconds.

— john timmer, Ars Technica, "Quantum computing’s future is almost semi-here—are we ready for it?," 16 Mar. 2018
But Trump has yet to visit a combat zone, despite the United States’ military entanglements overseas.

— eli rosenberg, Washington Post, "Trump said he would charge a gunman. Here’s what he’s actually done in the face of danger.," 26 Feb. 2018
But the population's falling again because of poor reproduction coupled with high mortality from ship strikes and entanglement.

— patrick whittle, The Christian Science Monitor, "As right whales face extinction, activists buoy hope," 3 Apr. 2018

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