disclinationn.

1812 F. Hardy Mem. Polit. & Private Life James Caulfield (ed. 2) 243 No one lamented more than Lord Charlemont did his almost invincible disclination [ed. 1, 1810: disinclination] to address a public assembly on this alleged sale of peerages.

1893 Med. & Surg. Reporter 11 Nov. 765/1 Marked disclination to perform any work requiring much exertion of body or mind.

1937 Technique (Georgia School Technol.) 5 Mar. 1/5 We..detest, dislike, and have a disclination to any and all unnecessary..and useless words or speech.

1975 A. Fergusson When Money Dies ix. 150 Traders' disclination to accept Reichsbanknotes could still theoretically be countered by multiplying..their quantity.

2008 C. M. Stanford Relig. & Politics Nicaragua iii. 192 This disclination to embrace the Christian Base Community centered on a perceived tendency of the organization to move Catholic religious practice away from a heavy emphasis on the veneration of the saints.

1958 F. C. Frank in Discuss. Faraday Soc. 25 26 The apparent threads seen within the fluid..are line singularities... In analogy with dislocations, they might be named ‘disinclinations’.]

1966 F. R. Naborro in Abstr. Papers Internat. Conf. Electron Diffraction & Nat. Defects Crystals ii. L-1 Dislocations and disclinations represent lines of singularity in an elastic displacement field.

1992 D. Armitage in M. A. Karim Electro-optical Displays ii. 27 Disclination points are observed in nematic droplets and are of practical interest in polymer-dispersed LCDs.

1999 J. F. Sadoc in J. F. Sadoc & N. Rivier Foams & Emulsions xxx. 519 Wedge disclinations can be viewed as loci of curvature concentration in a three dimensional space.

2011 I. A. Ovid′ko & A. G. Sheinerman in J. C. M. Li Mech. Properties Nanocrystalline Materials 265 Nanocracks in nanocrystalline ceramics can also form in the stress field of disclination dipoles or quadrupoles.