delocalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to remove from the proper or usual locality.
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to free or remove from the restrictions of locality; free of localism, provincialism, or the like.
to delocalize a person's accent.
verb
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to remove from the usual locality
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to free from local influences
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Instead, Bradlyn and his collaborators turned their attention from the hinge state to the interior, where the electrons tend to "delocalize" from individual atoms and spread through the entire material.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2024
But we can have no St. Simons or Pepyses till we have a Paris or London to delocalize our gossip and give it historic breadth.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
Quantum mechanics allows an object to be delocalized across multiple locations at the same time, an effect that has been repeatedly demonstrated with atoms and even small pieces of metal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ironically, the fragmentation of news delivery has also delocalized us, as events near and far flow toward us in a torrent of collapsed context.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024
In particular, local spins would be affected by being coupled to delocalized conducting electrons, as in compounds called Kondo systems11.
From Nature ● Aug. 27, 2019
They are not located in one position or the other, but in reality are delocalized throughout the ring.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
And the social and political aspect of the change, is this steadily increasing proportion of people—more especially in our suburban areas—who are, so far as our old divisions go, delocalized.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Then the principle of representation was constantly delocalizing the town, and bringing into the arena subjects which reminded men of their relationship to the state and the crown.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
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