entanglement

noun

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

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

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:entanglement.”

4. That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
5. That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
6. Ellipsis of quantum entanglement.

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