complication

English edit

watch with various complications (sense 5)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French complication, from Latin complicatio, complicationem. Morphologically complicate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation edit

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Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
- 2013, Stacy Perman, A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35:
  Obsessed, he was after a watch that contained the greatest number of complications in the boldest combinations in the smallest space imaginable.
- 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.

Translations edit

act of complicating

Arabic: تَعْقِيد m (taʕqīd)
Hijazi Arabic: تَعْقِيد m (taʕgīd)
Bulgarian: усложнение (bg) n (usložnenie), затруднение (bg) n (zatrudnenie)
Catalan: complicació (ca) f
French: complication (fr) f
German: Komplikation (de) f
Romanian: complicație (ro) f
Russian: усложне́ние (ru) n (usložnénije), затрудне́ние (ru) n (zatrudnénije), осложне́ние (ru) n (osložnénije)
Spanish: complicación f
Swedish: komplikation (sv) c, förveckling (sv) c

the state of being complicated

Maori: kūrakuraku, powhiwhi, pīroiroitanga
Polish: komplikacja (pl) f
Romanian: complicație (ro) f
Tagalog: kasalimuotan
Ukrainian: скла́дність f (skládnistʹ)

(medicine)

Arabic: مُضَاعَفَة f (muḍāʕafa)
Bulgarian: усложнение (bg) n (usložnenie)
Catalan: complicació (ca) f
Dutch: complicatie (nl) f
French: complication (fr) f
German: Komplikation (de) f
Hebrew: סיבוך m (sibúkh)
Indonesian: komplikasi (id)
Italian: complicazione (it)
Maori: pōauautanga, pīroiroitanga
Polish: komplikacja (pl) f, powikłanie (pl) n
Portuguese: complicação (pt)
Romanian: complicație (ro) f
Russian: осложне́ние (ru) n (osložnénije)
Spanish: complicación
Swedish: svit (sv) c
Tagalog: komplikasyon

feature beyond basic time display

German: Komplikation (de) f, Complication f
Polish: komplikacja (pl) f

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