disequilibrium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of disequilibrium
First recorded in 1830–40; dis- 1 + equilibrium
Vocabulary lists containing disequilibrium
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
We sense this disequilibrium in the cultural prominence of 24-hour cable news, streaming television and podcasts, an expansion of what in 1982 the cultural historian Walter J. Ong dubbed the age of “secondary orality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
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
Still, Galileo measured oxygen and methane in Earth’s atmosphere, the latter in ratios that suggested a disequilibrium brought about by living organisms.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
Additionally, a regime of stable exchange rates won't go far towards facilitating the second result: to shorten the duration and lessen the degree of disequilibrium in the international balances of payments of members.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
