DESTABILIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destabilization mean? 

• DESTABILIZATION (noun)
  The noun DESTABILIZATION has 2 senses:

1. an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft)

2. the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy)

  Familiarity information: DESTABILIZATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTABILIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("destabilization" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Domain category:

aircraft (a vehicle that can fly)

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Derivation:

destabilize (make unstable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

destabilisation; destabilization

Hypernyms ("destabilization" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Domain category:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Antonym:

stabilization (the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable)

Derivation:

destabilize (make unstable)

destabilize (become unstable)

 Context examples 

EspG interacts with tubulins and stimulates microtubule destabilization.

(Pathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Upon release, bupivacaine reversibly binds to specific voltage-gated sodium ion channels in the neuronal membrane, resulting in a decrease in the voltage-dependent membrane permeability to sodium ions, membrane destabilization, and depolarization inhibition thus disrupting nerve impulse conduction.

(Extended Release Bupivacaine Hydrochloride Resorbable Matrix Formulation, NCI Thesaurus)

The cryptophycins are a family of 16-membered macrolide antimitotic agents isolated from the cyanobacteria Nostoc sp. The mechanism of anticancer activity of the cryptophycins has been associated with their destabilization of microtubules and induction of bcl-2 phosphorylation leading to apoptosis.

(Cryptophycin, NCI Thesaurus)