complication
pronunciation
How to pronounce complication in British English:
UK [ˌkɒmplɪˈkeɪʃn]
How to pronounce complication in American English:
US [ˌkɑːmplɪˈkeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused
- any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
- a development that complicates a situation
- puzzling complexity
Word Origin
- complication (n.)
- early 15c., from Middle French complication, from Latin complicationem (nominative complicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of complicare "to fold together, fold up, roll up," from com- "together" (see com-) + plicare "to fold, weave" (see ply (v.1)). Meaning "something that complicates" first recorded 1903.
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Example
- 1. But china has proven to be a continuous complication .
- 2. Tardive dyskinesia also is mentioned as a possible complication .
- 3. An added complication was that pauling was about to visit london and crick feared that dr. franklin , who hoped to see him , might give him her experimental data on dna , enabling him to guess and announce the structure before the articles then in press with nature were published .
- 4. But issuing debt raises a whole additional level of complication .
- 5. But something seemingly as simple as this is fraught with complication .