Complication

Quick meaning: Complication is a noun meaning The act or process of complicating.

Meaning

The act or process of complicating.

More Meanings

1. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
2. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
3. (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
4. (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
5. (obsolete) A twisting or intertwining.

Example Sentences

the snaky complication in the Caduceus or rod of Hermes.

In their final year, each student must make their own watch with a complication—from a tourbillon to a chiming mode to having a date display.

Obsessed, he was after a watch that contained the greatest number of complications in the boldest combinations in the smallest space imaginable.

Word Forms

• complications

Synonyms for complication

Depending on context, synonyms include entanglement, intricacy, snarl, tangle, ramification, complicatedness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include complicatedness, snarl, tangle, knottiness, ramification, complicating.

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