Definition of Delocalize

1. Verb. Remove from the proper or usual locality.

Generic synonyms: Get Rid Of, Remove

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

delivre
dell
dellaite
dellaventuraite
delle
dellen
dellies
dells
delly
delo
delocalisation
delocalisations
delocalised
delocalization
delocalizations
delocalize (current term)
delocalized
delocalizes
delocalizing
deloft
delofted
delofting
delofts
delomorphic
delomorphous
deloo
delope
deloped
delopes
deloping

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 ..."

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