détente

• detente

Unadapted borrowing from French détente (“relaxing”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪˈtɒnt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /deɪˈtɑnt/, /dɪˈtɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

détente (countable and uncountable, plural détentes)

1. (chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 318:

     Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.

   • 2014 January 14, Stephen Kinzer, “Invading Iraq was dumb enough. Now Congress wants to derail the Iran deal”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

• rollback/regime change
• containment

• detent

Borrowed from Latin detenta or detendita, as a feminine past participle of detentus.

• IPA^(key): /de.tɑ̃t/

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détente f (plural détentes)

1. relaxation, détente
2. trigger (firearms)
3. (sports) height to which one is able to jump
4. (physics) expansion of a gas or a spring

• long à la détente
• presser la détente

• détendre

• → English: détente, → detent

• “détente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• endette, endetté