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disequilibrium

[ dis-ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, dis-ee- ]

noun

  1. lack of equilibrium; imbalance.


disequilibrium

/ ˌɪːɪˈɪɪə /

noun

  1. a loss or absence of equilibrium, esp in an economy
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of disequilibrium1

First recorded in 1830–40; dis- 1 + equilibrium
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In a typical genomic region, many variants are highly correlated with each other, due to a phenomenon called linkage disequilibrium.

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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.

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One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium.

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Climate change is a reflection of how disequilibrium in the atmosphere has unleashed forces on Earth that exacerbate and heighten social and political tensions.

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“The pace is quickening, and the number of glaciers experiencing a disequilibrium response is skyrocketing.”

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