Meaning & use
entanglement
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The state of being twisted together with something else, or a complicated and often awkward involvement.
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The fishing net's entanglement with the propeller took hours to untangle.
Their romantic entanglement made office meetings uncomfortable for everyone.
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Used both literally (wires, nets) and figuratively (relationships, legal or political complications).
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2. noun
In physics, a phenomenon in which two particles remain connected so that the state of one instantly affects the other, regardless of distance.
Quantum entanglement is central to the science of quantum computing.
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