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disequilibrium

[dis-ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, dis-ee-] / dɪsˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌdɪs i- /






NOUN
unbalance
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"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

But the electric connection he makes with the mind of his viewer is through visual and visceral disequilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

In a typical genomic region, many variants are highly correlated with each other, due to a phenomenon called linkage disequilibrium.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024

The telescope is just beginning its remote exploration of the atmospheres of dozens of exoplanets, hunting for the same sort of chemical disequilibrium that Galileo spotted in Earth’s atmosphere.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023

It keeps people on edge, that is in a condition of unstable equilibrium, and almost anything that touches them has a tendency to put them into a state of disequilibrium.

From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh


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