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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 localityplay

  Familiarity information: DELOCALIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DELOCALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they delocalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it delocalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: delocalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: delocalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: delocalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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