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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French complication, from Latin complicatio, complicationem. Morphologically complicate + -ion
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]complication (countable and uncountable, plural complications)
- The act or process of complicating.
- The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
- (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- Coordinate terms: sequela, comorbidity
- (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
- 2023 May 28, Brian Ng, “Is one of these students the next Breguet?”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 43:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A twisting or intertwining.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- the snaky complication in the Caduceus or rod of Hermes.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of complicating
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the state of being complicated
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(medicine)
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feature beyond basic time display
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Further reading
[edit]complication (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
complication (horology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “complication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “complication”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin complicātiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
- Homophone: complications
- Hyphenation: com‧pli‧ca‧tion
Noun
[edit]complication f (plural complications)
- complication
- Antonym: simplification
Further reading
[edit]- “complication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]complication (plural complicationes)
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