ENTANGLEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entanglement mean? 

• ENTANGLEMENT (noun)
  The noun ENTANGLEMENT has 1 sense:

1. an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim

  Familiarity information: ENTANGLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTANGLEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

entanglement; web

Hypernyms ("entanglement" is a kind of...):

trap (a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entanglement"):

spider's web; spider web (a web resembling the webs spun by spiders)

Derivation:

entangle (entrap)

 Context examples 

This measurement utilizes the strange behavior of quantum physics, which simultaneously collapses the entanglement link and transfers the particle state to another particle already on the receiver chip.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Even so, they were twice dragged backward by the weight of the sled, and slid and fell down the hill, the living and the dead, the haul-ropes and the sled, in ghastly entanglement.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A quantum computer would be able to solve previously unsolvable computational problems by taking advantage of the strange behaviour of particles at the subatomic scale, and quantum phenomena such as entanglement and superposition.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)

I long to exert a fraction of Samson's strength, and break the entanglement like tow!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was released without any reproach to himself, from an entanglement which had long formed his misery, from a woman whom he had long ceased to love;—and elevated at once to that security with another, which he must have thought of almost with despair, as soon as he had learnt to consider it with desire.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The scientists were also able to create a more complex circuit of four sources – and all of them turned out to be “nearly identical” thanks to the aforementioned entanglement.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

My father, indeed, imposed the determination, but since his death, I have not a legitimate obstacle to contend with; some affairs settled, a successor for Morton provided, an entanglement or two of the feelings broken through or cut asunder—a last conflict with human weakness, in which I know I shall overcome, because I have vowed that I will overcome—and I leave Europe for the East.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“We were able to demonstrate a high-quality entanglement link across two chips in the lab, where photons on either chip share a single quantum state,” research co-author Dan Llewellyn said.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In one of the experiments with the chips, described as a breakthrough, the researchers were able to demonstrate the quantum teleportation of information between two programmable devices for the very first time using a physical process known as quantum entanglement.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)