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Definition of Delocalize
1. Verb. Remove from the proper or usual locality.
Definition of Delocalize
1. Verb. (biology) To remove from a locality ¹
2. Verb. To broaden the scope of something (to make it more global) ¹
3. Verb. (chemistry) To contain an electron in an orbital that extends over several adjacent atoms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delocalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delocalize
Literary usage of Delocalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Representative Government and Personal Representation: Based in Part Upon by Simon Sterne, Thomas Hare (1871)
"... it brings the disposition for voluntary association to the business of political
life.f If it is urged that such a system would delocalize the vote, ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... shows that the presence of substituents at the acetylenic bond which can
delocalize positive charge favors ..."
3. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1913)
"... till we have a Paris or London to delocalize our gossip and give it historic
breadth. All our capitals are frao tional, merely greater or smaller ..."