Verwicklung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- entanglement noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
- ramification noun The way something splits into smaller branches, as a plant's stem or a blood vessel does.
Senses
Verwicklung is used for these senses in English:
- entanglement The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
- ramification (figurative, often, in plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
entanglement — full definition
- noun The state of being twisted together or caught up in something physical, or the tangled mass itself.
- noun A complicated or compromising involvement with someone or something, especially a romantic or sexual relationship that is difficult to get out of.
- noun In physics, a quantum effect in which two or more particles share a single combined state, so that measuring one instantly determines the corresponding property of the other however far apart they are.
ramification — full definition
- noun The way something splits into smaller branches, as a plant's stem or a blood vessel does.
- noun A result or effect of something, especially one that makes a situation more complicated.
- noun The pattern or structure formed by a set of branches.
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