disequilibrium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of disequilibrium
First recorded in 1830–40; dis- 1 + equilibrium
Vocabulary lists containing disequilibrium
Example Sentences
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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
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
One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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