Intractable may refer to:
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Intractable conflict
Protracted social conflict is a technical term that generally refers to conflicts described by other researchers as ''protracted'' or ''intractable:'' complex, severe, commonly enduring, and often violent. The term was presented in a theory develop ...
, a form of complex, severe, and enduring conflict
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Intractable pain
Intractable pain (also known as intractable pain disease/IPD) is a severe, constant, relentless and debilitating pain that is not curable by any known means and which causes a house-bound or bed-bound state and early death if not adequately treate ...
, pain which cannot be controlled/cured by any known treatment
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Intractable problem
In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other. A computational problem is a task solved b ...
, in computational complexity theory
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