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
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
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
Hortense seemed to have been "fussed"—either by an excess of company and of help, or by some private source of discontent and disequilibrium.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake
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