entanglement

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of entangling.

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

   (countable, uncountable)The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)

   Verwicklung, Gewirr

3. (countable, uncountable)The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.

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

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

   пу́таницаpútanica

5. (countable, uncountable)An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.

1. The whales are susceptible to ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear.

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2. Entanglement with the world constitutes an observation.

   ruСвязь с миром представляет собой наблюдение.

   deDie Verstrickung mit der Welt ist eine Beobachtung.

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3. Every government office seems to have problems in expediting matters without entanglement in its red tape system.

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4. Less than 20 vaquitas remain in the wild, and entanglement in illegal gillnets is driving the species toward extinction.

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5. If you like cosmology, maybe read the document "Inter-universal entanglement in a cyclic multiverse."

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