deshelving

noun — 2 senses

deshelving

noun

Etymology From de- + shelving.

1

The removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability.

  • Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving.2013, M. Hallward, Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, →ISBN, page 197:
2

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The process in which electrons change to an orbital with a lower, intermediate level of excitation.

  • controlled optical deshelving

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