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disinclination

[dis‚in·klə′nā·shən]
(crystallography)
A type of crystal imperfection in which one part of the crystal is rotated and therefore displaced relative to the rest of the crystal; observed in liquid crystals and protein coats of viruses.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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His conclusions, incidentally, are that humanity is by nature disinclined to stewardship and given to profligacy, so that we are most likely to continue our globally wastrel ways.
Frank Finch, RMI motorcycle retailers director explains: 'In the summer, many riders may be disinclined to wear appropriate clothing, but by not doing so they risk serious injury or worse.'
initiative," thereby globalizing the policy--and setting the stage for future military confrontations with governments disinclined to obey the UN's disarmament edicts.
Poynton was disinclined to rake up those old memories yesterday, saying: "I prefer to look forward rather than look backwards.
Whilst the other groups may be disinclined to countenance the wage, the ELDR proposes a transitional period during which the salary level would be considered by a group of independent experts.
Furthermore, since the vast majority of their colleagues on the lower courts were also appointed by Republicans, the justices generally tend to agree with lower court opinions and are disinclined to revisit them.
But Mr Major said last night: "I have heard no such comment and I am disinclined to speak on domestic matters while so far away and having not heard the debate.
'Even businesses capable of breaking through these barriers are often disinclined to do so because they fear excessive red tape,' Mr Druckman said.
GARRUTH, the 170,000gns buy out of Tim Easterby's yard, was disinclined to exert himself after being sent off 11-10 favourite for the staying novice chase, and trailed home third.
Nigh on two in three company managers say they have felt no impact of the Euro since its launch in January.The survey increases the impression that the British are extremely disinclined to get involved in a single currency debate.
The book is an intellectual autobiography (the author is disinclined toward any other kind), and Hart's mind draws from a deep well: John Wesley, Kirkegaard, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and, finally, the American reform tradition beginning with Jefferson and culminating in the idol of Hart's young adulthood, John Kennedy.