disequilibrium
Example Sentences
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Until the Black Death, medical writers did not routinely categorize distinct diseases, and instead often presented illness as a generalized physical disequilibrium.
From Science Magazine
He concluded that the best way to search was to simply study its atmosphere with spectrometers and look for the disequilibrium gases that life must produce.
From Scientific American
But states of “ordered disequilibrium” can also be found in non-living systems, such as flowing liquids, so this criterion alone doesn’t single out life.
From The Guardian
“We wanted to make sure that one unified voice would be going out to school, so there would not be a disequilibrium of guidance going out,” she said.
From Washington Times
Zausner concluded that such illnesses led to the creation of new possibilities for their art by breaking old habits, provoking disequilibrium, and forcing the artists to generate alternative strategies to reach their creative goals.
From Scientific American
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