entanglement🔊

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.)

The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.

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

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

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

(quantum mechanics) 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.