complication

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That would add a degree of overhead and complication that services like Dropbox don't have.

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the act or process of complicating

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of complication gathered in one view.

noun

the act or process of complicating

noun

a situation or condition that is complex or confused; "her coming was a serious complication"

noun

any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for complication.

noun

the act or process of complicating

noun

a situation or condition that is complex or confused; "her coming was a serious complication"

noun

any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis"

noun

a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"

noun

puzzling complexity

Example sentences

That would add a degree of overhead and complication that services like Dropbox don't have.

The monkey lived 8 days and was, by all measures, normal, having suffered no complications.

I have and used to wear the rarer top model of that series, with several more complications and digits in the price.

It'd be interesting to compare their post-op complication stats to some of the 'overpriced' facilities.

Many midwives make the point that a complication free birth is not a medical event, and the majority of births are complication free.

It's handled the same way as with the first leg, only there's an added complication:Once we've got the first and second leg transfer orbits selected, we can ask the required flyby altitude at the first flyby.

For most things there's not usually a good reason to add the expense and complication of 12-hour time differences and international borders unless you're planning up front to make legal recourse difficult.

It does add some complication to the implementation however, especially when you get into designs that retire multiple instructions per cycle or support out-of-order execution, as conditional execution basically adds additional dependencies to every instruction.