entanglement

noun
/ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English entanglen English entangle Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English entanglement From entangle + -ment.

Definitions

  1. The act of entangling.

    • 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[…]
  2. The state or condition of being entangled

    The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.

    • 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.
  3. That which entangles

    That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Ellipsis of quantum entanglement.

      • In his article, Bell demonstrated that quantum theory requires entanglement; the strange connectedness is an inescapable feature of the equations.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at entanglement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at entanglement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at entanglement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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