[syn: dislocation, breakdown]
3. a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dislocation
n 1: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
[syn: dislocation, 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: dislocation, breakdown]
3: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal
position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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