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单词 entanglement
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entanglementn.

/ɛnˈtaŋɡ(ə)lmənt/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s in-.
Etymology: < entangle v. + -ment suffix.
1.
a. The action of entangling; the fact or condition of being entangled, confused medley; spec. a compromising relationship, an unsuitable liaison.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun]
implicationc1430
implicamentc1450
imployment1598
implicity1602
tangle1615
illigation1656
perplexity1664
entanglement1687
intertwisting1753
intertanglement1817
tanglement1831
ravelment1833
bewilderment1844
intertwist1870
betanglement1881
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining
tangling1535
entangling1574
strangury1699
entanglement1751
enmeshment1885
the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > compromising or unsuitable liaison
entanglement1863
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy
lemanry1483
intrigo1648
blanket-lovea1657
intrigue1668
affair1700
connection1791
liaison1816
entanglement1863
mpango wa kando2009
1687 H. More App. to Antidote (1712) 194 The intanglement of multifarious Contradictions in the Conception.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. xii. 73 The different webs that offer to him for the entanglement of a haughty charmer.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 229/1 The entanglement of blood in the cellular coat of the vessel.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ix. 187 Produced by the entanglement of the single threads.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. iv. 42 Serious risks of entanglement among the broken ice-fields.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 21 Great was the entanglement of fissures.
1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 109 In all that concerns Cromwell the entanglement is extreme.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Dark Night's Work v. 60 This foolish entanglement of Ralph's; they would not call it an engagement.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 122 He kept himself out of all political entanglement.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 638 Without entanglement of machinery or waste of power.
1957 ‘D. Rutherford’ Long Echo i. 24 Maria..dead could not involve him in any entanglement.
b. An instance of entanglement.
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a1690 E. Hopkins in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. xi. 6 All the involucra and entanglements of Providence shall be fully unfolded.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. viii. 331 Thus entanglements arise not easy to be unravelled.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 278 The first entanglements between Normandy and Anjou.
2.
a. A means of entangling; that by which a person or thing is entangled; an embarrassment, a snare; a circumstance which complicates or confuses a matter.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > that which
fetterOE
bandc1175
bonda1325
mesh1541
tangling1575
gyve1587
entanglement1644
impesterment1652
trammela1657
stranglehold1899
tanglefoot1908
chokehold1911
1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 5 The Roman Antichrists have knit many a pernicious entanglement to distressed consciences.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 475 These civile honors and employments are verie great entanglements to Christ's ministers.
1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 24 A very great let and intanglement to him in his Enquiry after Truth.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Corn Those salts..cut and remove the entanglements of the different buds which are contained in each seed.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 138 Pleasure is a sly enchantress..we have need of all our eyes to keep clear of her entanglements.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 267 These are a few of the entanglements which impede the natural course of human thought.
1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 357 Here was a new entanglement, the plot of a quite new historical drama.
b. Nautical. ‘A cable stretched athwart the mouth of a river or harbour, with stout spars of wood lashed to it, to prevent the entrance of an enemy’ (Adm. Smyth).
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1888 Daily News 20 July 6/1 The booms, or rather entanglements, which are to protect each of the entrances to our anchorage.
3. Military. An extensive barrier arranged so as to impede an enemy's movements; an abatis formed of trees and branches, or an obstruction formed of stakes and barbed wire.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun]
traverse1524
barricado1596
under-traverse1598
barricade1642
traverser1645
entanglement1834
barrel-barricade1837
barricade-work1867
barricading1890
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 83 The boughs of the brushwood..interlacing with one another, will thus form a very good obstacle, called an entanglement.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) A good entanglement can be made with stakes and wire.
1879 H. Hensman Afghan War (1881) 215 Wire entanglements, made with telegraph wire and tent-pegs.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 2/1 Where a wood enters into the scheme of defence, an abattis—in this case called an ‘entanglement’—forms naturally one of the best resources of the defenders.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 47 Slowly and cautiously, with the officer leading, they began to wend their way out under their own entanglements.
1917 H. Gibson Diplom. Diary 168 Tremendous barbed wire entanglements form a broad barrier.
1922 E. Blunden Shepherd 69 They've all died on the entanglements.

Draft additions October 2001

Physics. A correlation between the states of two separate quantum systems such that the behaviour of the two together is different from the juxtaposition of the behaviours of each considered alone.
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1935 E. Schrödinger in Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 31 555 By the interaction the two representatives (or ψ-functions) have become entangled. To disentangle them we must gather further information by experiment... In what follows the whole of this procedure will be called the disentanglement.]
1935 E. Schrödinger in Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 31 556 Let x and y stand for all the coordinates of the first and second systems respectively and Ψ(x, y) for the normalized representative of the state of the composed system, when the two have separated again, after the interaction has taken place. What constitutes the entanglement is that Ψ is not a product of a function of x and a function of y.
1989 A. Shimony in P. Davies New Physics xiii. 379/2 If we stretch our imaginations to accept the concept of potentiality, as quantum mechanics apparently requires us to do, then entanglement becomes comprehensible.
1996 New Scientist 28 Sept. 27/1 In theory, entanglement can create an intimate bond between any quantum systems that have interacted.
2000 Nature 16 Mar. 231/3 Only very recently, a three-particle entanglement..was observed and used to verify the predictions of quantum mechanics.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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