noun. The act or process of dislocating or the state of having been dislocated.

noun. Displacement of a body part, especially the temporary displacement of a bone from its normal position.

noun. An imperfection in the crystal structure of a metal or other solid resulting from an absence of an atom or atoms in one or more layers of a crystal.

noun. undefined

noun. The territorial distribution of an army.

noun. Displacement; derangement or disorder of parts.

noun. Specifically

noun. In surgery: The displacement or separation of the parts of a joint; the unjointing of a limb; luxation.

noun. Anatomical displacement, as of an organ through disease or violence; malposition.

noun. In geology, a break in the continuity of strata, usually attended with more or less movement of the rocks on one side or the other, so that, in following any one stratum, it will be found to be above or below the place which it would have occupied had no break or dislocation occurred. See fault.

noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

noun. The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

noun. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

noun. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

noun. The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

noun. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

noun. A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.

noun. the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

noun. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

noun. a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

"In some persons the ligaments of the joint are unnaturally lax, and dislocation is liable to occur repeatedly from comparatively slight causes -- _recurrent dislocation_."

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break  disruption  interruption  perturbation  

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breakdown  concussion  dehydration  deprivation  derangement  

abstraction  alienation  convulsion  derangement  detachment