Complication meaning

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A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
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A second disease or abnormal condition occurring during the course of a primary disease.
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The act of complicating.
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The definition of a complication is an undesired development that makes something harder or makes something worse.

When you have surgery and a problem develops as a result of the surgery, this is an example of a complication.

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A factor, condition, or element that complicates.
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A secondary disease, an accident, or a negative reaction occurring during the course of an illness and usually aggravating the illness.
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The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
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(medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
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A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
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A confused or intricate relationship of parts.
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A secondary disease, an accident, or a negative reaction occurring during the course of an illness and usually aggravating the illness.
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The act of complicating, or making involved.
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A complicated condition or structure; complex, involved, or confused relationship of parts.
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A complicating factor or occurrence as in the plot of a story or in the unfolding of events.
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Origin of complication

  • From Middle French complication.
    From Wiktionary

Complication Sentence Examples

  • Xander, however, was a complication she'd never before run across.

  • Trans., 1894) investigated the question for the cases of loaded and unloaded shafts, and, owing to the complication arising from the application of the general theory to the cases of loaded shafts, devised empirical formulae for the critical speeds of shafts loaded with heavy pulleys, based generally upon the following assumption, which is stated for the case of a shaft carrying one pulley: If Ni, N1 be the separate speeds of whirl of the shaft and pulley on the assumption that the effect of one is neglected when that of the other is under consideration, then the resulting speed of whirl due to both causes combined may be taken to be of the form N1N2~!

  • A further complication occurs in each of these two classes of eye.

  • But one complication was removed by the annulling in 1428 of his marriage with Jacqueline.

  • By such means this additional complication was averted, but the struggle to put Egypt in a genuinely solvent position was by no means over.

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