delocalize

[ dee-loh-kuh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, de·lo·cal·ized, de·lo·cal·iz·ing.

1. to remove from the proper or usual locality.
2. to free or remove from the restrictions of locality; free of localism, provincialism, or the like:

   to delocalize a person's accent.

delocalize

/ diːˈləʊkəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to remove from the usual locality
2. to free from local influences

Derived Forms

• deˌlocaliˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• de·local·i·zation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of delocalize¹

First recorded in 1850–55; de- + localize

Example Sentences

Instead, Bradlyn and his collaborators turned their attention from the hinge state to the interior, where the electrons tend to "delocalize" from individual atoms and spread through the entire material.

From Science Daily

In a BEC, quantum mechanics allows atoms to delocalize—to spread out and overlap with one another so that all the atoms in the condensate act in unison.

From Scientific American

But they are also more likely to be drawn into the culture wars grounded in depersonalized, delocalized ideologies that are ripping the world apart, in India as much as in Euro-America.

From Scientific American

But theorists have calculated that there are some materials that have delocalized electrons, yet don’t have strongly topological properties.

From Nature

So, we might investigate whether there can be some more innocuous new effects that delocalize information and allow it to “leak” from black holes, without a drastic failure of the usual spacetime picture.

From Scientific American