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dislocation

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. 2 (context geology English) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations. 3 The act ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dislocation \Dis`lo*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dislocation.] The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. --T. Burnet. (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In materials science , a dislocation is a crystallographic defect , or irregularity, within a crystal structure . The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of materials. The theory describing the elastic fields of the defects ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: disruption ] 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 ...

Usage examples of dislocation.

It appeared, according to the visiting laryngologist, that there was paresis of the vocal fold from damage to either the recurrent laryngeal nerve or from mechanical dislocation of a cricoarytenoid joint.

He thought about it, reached down, picked up a cable, and He felt the usual momentary sense of dislocation as the interface built up and patched him into the nervous system of the semiautonomous organism that was the Albagens Pride.

On examination a subcoracoid dislocation of the head of the humerus was found.

The faint shiver of dislocation passed through him immediately, and he found himself under a wooden arch with a decorative curved trelliswork that spelled out bazaar.

The Iraqi regime is the principal culprit in that its actions and policy decisions caused much--probably most--of the dislocations that produced the disaster.

Many of the ivory inlayings of her bulwarks and cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural dislocation.

Any transference to foreign rule -- for if the British marched out of India the Japanese and other powers would immediately march in -- would mean an immense dislocation.

The forced suburbia of these women's lives, the clubby limits of the 1950s in some dead American pasturage, here was a dislocation with certain seductive attributes and balances.

An Educator tape could not be edited and the degree of confusion, emotional disorientation, and personality dislocation caused to a recipient could not be adequately described even by the Senior Physicians and Diagnosticians who experienced it.

To this is added a stiffening wrist, the effect of age on an antient dislocation, which renders writing slow and painful, and disables me nearly from all correspondence, and may very possibly make this the last trouble I shall give you in that way.

They marched on, climbing steadily across the plateau, unaffected by discombobulating dislocations, save for a few minor ones.

Perhaps if we could find enough of such, these dislocations you worry about, Coordinator, wouldn’t occur.

It was the political power behind their activities—the power of forced, unearned, economically unjustified privileges—that caused dislocations in the country's economy, hardships, depressions, and mounting public protests.

The crystalline structure beneath it had no fractures, no vacancies, no dislocations, no planar defects or interstitials-none of those deviations from uniform crystalline structure that in the Presences served the function served by neurons and neuro-transmitters in fleshly creatures.

And what were the minds of the Presences after all but vast arrays of dislocations, molecular vacancies, self-reproducing line, and planar defects generating energy along infinitesimal fault lines, molecular neurons rather than biological ones, atoms of chromium instead of dopamine, with vacancies in the infinite grid serving as receptor cells.