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Loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others
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disequilibrium
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WordNet
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n. loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others [ant: equilibrium ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Interest rates reflect the disequilibrium between supply and demand. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Beginning with the emergence of preoperational reasoning, arguments and intellectual confrontations with others are a source of ...
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In medicine, disequilibrium refers to an impaired sense of equilibrioception . It is one of the causes of dizziness .
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n. the loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces
Usage examples of disequilibrium.
Nevertheless that globe, though warmer on the average, was at reasonable temperatures, and its atmospheric spectrum revealed chemical disequilibria such as must be due to life.
It's that as we make our way across the historical landscape toward the sensed presence of this transcendental other, so it is making its way toward us through the content of dreams, psychedelic experiences, the careers of spiritually advanced people, -- the idea being that history, which is a state of extreme instability and disequilibrium which only lasts 15 or 20 thousand years, that history is about to be transformed or ended, that the factors that shaped history -- phonetic alphabets, male dominance, materialism, scientific method, empiricism -- these factors are about to be made obsolete by discoveries in the human and natural realm.
It's as though it's a lost world, a parallel continuum, and if you have access to this lost world, this parallel continuum, it would never enter your mind to invent mathematics, government, religion, all of these things, because you are in the moment, you are at peace with yourself and your community, and this is something that we have to make our way back to, because the disequilibrium of history has turned rather rough and ugly here, post-World War II.
This 'togetherness', which goes under the daunting technical name of linkage disequilibrium, plays curious tricks with the equations of mathematical geneticists.
Although that might seem insignificant, it is in startling disequilibrium with all that oxygen.
The profound methane disequilibrium is a third sign of life on the earth.
An' wherever there's a disequilibrium, someone is going to get rich disassembling the leftovers.
With the loss of them there follows uncertainty, and with uncertainty, disequilibrium, since life, as both Nietzsche and Ibsen knew, requires life-supporting illusions.
But if the tension is constant, it can never recover equilibrium, so you get a chronic nervous disequilibrium that over time can" "What stress was Lucy under that the rest of us aren't?
No one commits suicide for external reasons, only because of inner disequilibrium.