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complications

complications is the plural of complication.

Meaning of complication

Noun

complication (countable and uncountable, plural complications)

  1. The act or process of complicating.
  2. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
  3. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
  4. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  5. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
    • Obsessed, he was after a watch that contained the greatest number of complications in the boldest combinations in the smallest space imaginable.2013, Stacy Perman, A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35
  6. (obsolete) A twisting or intertwining.
    • the snaky complication in the Caduceus or rod of Hermes.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Questions about complications

What is complications the plural of?
Complications is the plural of complication.

Words near complications in the dictionary

  1. complicateness
  2. complicates
  3. complicatic acid
  4. complicating
  5. complication
  6. complications
  7. complicative
  8. complicator
  9. complicators
  10. complice
  11. complices

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