deshelving
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process in which electrons change to an orbital with a lower, intermediate level of excitation.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving."
- "controlled optical deshelving"
Etymology
From de- + shelving.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de