Noun: entanglement en'tang-gul-munt
- An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
"The spider's web was an effective entanglement for small insects";
- web
- A complicated or confusing situation that is difficult to escape from
"The legal entanglement lasted for years"
- (physics) a quantum state where particles are fundamentally correlated such that the quantum state of each cannot be described independently
"Quantum entanglement is essential for quantum computing"
Derived forms: entanglements
Type of: trap
Encyclopedia: Entanglement