complication

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

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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. (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

5. (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.

• complication (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• complication (horology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• complication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “complication”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• accomplition

Borrowed from Latin complicatio, complicationem.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
• Homophone: complications
• Hyphenation: com‧pli‧ca‧tion

complication f (plural complications)

1. complication

   Antonym: simplification

• “complication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

complication (plural complicationes)

1. complication