envelopment

noun

Definition of envelopmentnext
as in entanglement

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  1. entanglement
  2. entrapment
  3. ambush
  4. web
Noun
  • The development of large-scale quantum computers and quantum networks depends on the ability to capture and maintain entanglement across bigger systems.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Spirit’s route parallels with JetBlue and Frontier make sense given the collective entanglement.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of entanglement
Noun
  • The man, who was not identified, was seriously injured by the collapse and entrapment.
    Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is believed to also address the risk of suffocation and entrapment.
    Sari Hitchins, Parents, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of entrapment
Noun
  • Couple's first date ends with deadly ambush the night before Thanksgiving 04:18 Smith survived the shooting but doesn't remember anything from that Thanksgiving Day.
    Paul LaRosa, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In July 2022, a federal judge in North Dakota ordered La Linea to pay $4.6 billion in damages to the families of nine Americans killed in a November 4, 2019, ambush in northern Mexico.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of ambush
Noun
  • Today's enterprise technology stack is, by design, a complex web of AI models, APIs and microservices.
    Rajat Bhargava, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • An aphid had flown into a spider web and tried in vain to escape from the sticky threads.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of web
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