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DELOCALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delocalize mean?
• DELOCALIZE (verb)
The verb DELOCALIZE has 1 sense:
1. remove from the proper or usual locality
Familiarity information: DELOCALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they delocalize ... he / she / it delocalizes
Past simple: delocalized
Past participle: delocalized
-ing form: delocalizing
... he / she / it delocalizes Past simple: delocalized
Past participle: delocalized
-ing form: delocalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove from the proper or usual locality
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "delocalize" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
In a structural sense, it designates compounds that, in accordance with the theory of Huckel, have a cyclic, delocalized (4n+2) pi-electron system.
(Aromatic Compounds, NCI Thesaurus)
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