Word Finder - entanglement

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The state of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.

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That which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

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An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.

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An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.

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A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.

He skilfully avoided entanglement in the Jackson-Calhoun imbroglio.

The quantum eraser also works by seeking an entanglement of the particle motion with the detector.

Bob Geldof himself has so clearly persisted that any temporary entanglement with the Living Dead can ultimately only demean him.

In Hinduism (and many other beliefs of reincarnation), the act of suicide is a failure of the soul to resolve a karmic entanglement and learn the lessons that would achieve an evolved spiritual state of being.

The fur is shorter on the back and shoulders, probably to avoid entanglement in the underbrush.

This is only successful approximately half the time, and there are possible complications with the procedure, such as umbilical cord entanglement and separation of the placenta.

The person is facing a karmic entanglement, and it is critical that the issue is faced head on and resolved.

It's very important to understand that for people who suffer from such an illness, the karmic entanglement is similar to people who are struggling with physical disabilities.

In the process of overcoming that disability, the soul achieves those life lessons along the way and resolves one karmic entanglement after another.

Getting help is the first step to resolving karmic entanglement and elevating your soul toward true enlightenment, not only in this life but also in your future lives to come.

They had rated each other highly in the entanglement, and by mutual consent began repeat­ing the performance regularly.

From this theological entanglement the problem of free will did not escape for long centuries.

It was prolonged by her entanglement in European disputes and by political causes, by the want of co-operation among the English colonies and their jealousy of control by the home government.

He had not the genius to find a way out of the French entanglement or the skill to steer a constitutional monarchy between rival factions.

The medical work won the favour of the government, and so wisely did the missionaries act, that during all the turbulent changes since 1884 they escaped entanglement in the political disturbances and yet held the confidence of the people.

For thirty years after the peace of Utrecht the Provinces kept themselves free from entanglement in the quarrels of their neighbours.

In the East (Council of Ephesus, 431) he was helped by the entanglement of Pelagianism with Nestorianism, just as in the West the ruin of Nestorian prospects was occasioned partly by dislike for the better known system of Pelagianism.

For these smaller cetaceans, entanglement can cause death by drowning.

The cavalier attitude of France and Germany to the stability pact cannot have helped to convert the fairly puritanical Swedes to further continental entanglement.

But when spiritual and secular interests come into unfriendly contact and entanglement; when controversy in regard to them becomes inevitable; from which sphere, the spiritual or the civil, is the final decision to come?

Presently all these columns converged upon the defile and a hopeless entanglement ensued.

His personal popularity, too, due partly to his youth and genial manners, was at this time greatly increased by the cool courage he had shown after the dastardly bomb attack made upon him and his young wife, during the wedding procession at Madrid, by the anarchist Matteo Morales.1 Whatever his qualities, the growing entanglement of parliamentary affairs was soon to put them to the test.

The chief success of the government lay in the field of foreign politics, where it prudently avoided entanglement in the ambitious schemes of Hellenistic monarchs, but gained great prestige by energetic interference against aggressors who threatened the existing balance of power or the security of the seas.

In its lowest portions just behind the front ranges are the natural "parks" - great plateaus basined by superb enclosing ranges; and to the west of these, and between them, and covering the remainder of the state east of the plateau region, is an entanglement of mountains, tier above tier, running from north to south, buttressed laterally with splendid spurs, dominated by scores of magnificent peaks, cut by river valleys, and divided by mesas and plateaus.