Complication

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of complicating.
  • n. A confused or intricate relationship of parts.
  • n. A factor, condition, or element that complicates.
  • n. Medicine A secondary disease, an accident, or a negative reaction occurring during the course of an illness and usually aggravating the illness.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • n. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
  • n. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • n. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • n. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A complex combination or intricate intermingling of things, parts, elements, etc.; especially, a perplexing or incongruous intermixture or combination; a confused complex or complexity: as, a complication of knots in a rope; a complication of ideas, diseases, or misfortunes; the complication of one's affairs with those of another.
  • n. That which renders complex, involved, or intricate; that which causes difficulty, entanglement, or interference; an involved and troublesome or embarrassing state of affairs.
  • n. An entwining or infolding; an embrace.
  • n. In entomology, the manner in which an insect folds its wings when at rest.
  • n. In biology, a process the reverse of growth or development, by which the heterogeneous tends toward homogeneity.
  • n. In psychology, the simultaneous association of perceptions or ideas of different senses.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. puzzling complexity
  • n. a situation or condition that is complex or confused
  • n. any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
  • n. the act or process of complicating
  • n. a development that complicates a situation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    complexity    complexness    state of affairs    situation    disease   
    Cross Reference
    complication pendulum   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    entanglement    complexity   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disturbance    illness    complexity    injury    obstacle   
     
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