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An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
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disruption
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks" [syn: break , interruption , gap ] a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance , commotion ...
Wikipedia
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Disruption is ending an adoption . While technically an adoption is disrupted only when it is abandoned by the adopting parent or parents before it is legally completed (an adoption that is reversed after that point is instead referred to in the law as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disruption \Dis*rup"tion\, n. [L. disruptio, diruptio.] The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something. 2 A continuing act of disorder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cause chaos/disruption ▪ Floods caused chaos across much of the country. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ This will cause economic disruption comparable with a hike in oil prices or interest rates. serious ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin disruptionem (nominative disruptio ) "a breaking asunder," noun of action from past participle stem of disrumpere "break apart, split, shatter, break to pieces," from dis- "apart" (see dis- ) + rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). ...
Usage examples of disruption.
And because disruptions would count against Acorus in deciding which world would succeed Ifryn in power and glory?
Of their three suspects, the Bonapartist had the best motive for creating disruptions.
Now the only problem was, which of these two, Wallmeyer and Colville, would cause less disruption in the Nagy household.
While the Concerns screamed bloody murder at the prospect of Haluk trade disruption, the tabloid media would joyfully fan the flames of controversy.
Beauty of ganglial extension is no disruption to existing functionality!
Materials advocating violence, destruction of property, disruption of Grids, anti-O.
Rupert Inkman, Groutch chief of station of the famed and feared Commission to Repel Unbridled Disruption!
You see, when Obie felt that disruption in space-time, we first checked on the Well World to see if the master computer was damaged.
Thus it may truly be said of him not only that under his guidance the republic was saved from disruption and the country was purified of the blot of slavery, but that, during the stormiest and most perilous crisis in our history, he so conducted the government and so wielded his almost dictatorial power as to leave essentially intact our free institutions in all things that concern the rights and liberties of the citizens.
Interspersed among all of the various types of wards were a series of spell traps, killing spells, and alarms that would be triggered by the disruption of a ward.
But in this instance there was a truth congruent to the anthropomorphic effect: the cosmic disruption caused by the materialization of Paradise on the earthly plane brought about the day of judgment, allowed hell to be hauled up from wherever it rested on seventy thousand volts or ropes.
For the most part, the Yuuzhan Vong suicide squads were forcing the pilots to hit the same area, and the largest detonations were already causing forks of disruption static to dance across the shield.
That would explain both their fear of using it, and their conviction that it cannot undo the disruptions it causes in the timeline.
If it becomes necessary to strand anyone in the past, we would create exactly the overlapping time disruptions about which the Shechenag warned us.
But if it is permitted, we wish to observe the completion of the blocking sphere to assure our leaders that no further disruptions will occur in the timestream.