Dislocation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dislocation \Dis`lo*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dislocation.]
     1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
        --T. Burnet.
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     2. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of


        strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
        Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
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     3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint;
        also, the condition of being thus displaced.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dislocation
       n 1: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
            [syn: {disruption}]
       2: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to
          continue; "the social dislocations resulting from
          government policies"; "his warning came after the
          breakdown of talks in London" [syn: {breakdown}]
       3: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal
          position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "dislocation":
     abstraction, alienation, convulsion, derangement, detachment,
     disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, discomposure,
     disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement,
     disjointing, disjunction, disorder, disorganization, disturbance,
     disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, incoherence, insanity,
     isolation, luxation, misarrangement, parting, partition,
     perturbation, removal, segmentation, separation, separatism,
     shuffling, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning