noun

• The act of entangling.
• The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
• The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)
• The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.
• That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
• (military) An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
• (nautical) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
• (physics) Ellipsis of quantum entanglement. [(quantum mechanics) A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.]