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dislocation
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, and the like, are dislocations.
(Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, originally of bones, from Old French dislocacion (14c.), or directly from Medieval Latin dislocationem (nominative dislocatio), noun of action from past participle stem of dislocare (see dislocate). General sense is from c.1600.
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 of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced. 4 (''materials'') 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. 5 (context grammar English) (rfdef lang=en topic=grammar)
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 in London" [syn: breakdown]
a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
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 was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1907, but the term 'dislocation' to refer to a defect on the atomic scale was coined by G. I. Taylor in 1934. Some types of dislocations can be visualized as being caused by the termination of a plane of atoms in the middle of a crystal. In such a case, the surrounding planes are not straight, but instead they bend around the edge of the terminating plane so that the crystal structure is perfectly ordered on either side. The analogy with a stack of paper is apt: if half a piece of paper is inserted in a stack of paper, the defect in the stack is only noticeable at the edge of the half sheet.
The two primary types of dislocations are edge dislocations and screw dislocations. Mixed dislocations are intermediate between these.
Mathematically, dislocations are a type of topological defect, sometimes called a soliton. Dislocations behave as stable particles: they can move around, but maintain their identity. Two dislocations of opposite orientation can cancel when brought together, but a single dislocation typically cannot "disappear" on its own.
In syntax, dislocation is a sentence structure in which a constituent, which could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of the clause, occurs outside the clause boundaries either to its left or to its right. In this English example They went to the store, Mary and Peter the dislocation occurs to the right.
The dislocated element is often separated by a pause (comma in writing) from the rest of the sentence. Its place within the clause is often occupied by a pronoun (e.g. they).
There are two types of dislocation: right dislocation, in which the constituent is postponed (as in the above example), or a left dislocation, in which it is advanced. Right dislocation often occurs with a clarifying afterthought: They went to the store is a coherent sentence, but Mary and Peter is added afterward to clarify exactly who they are. By contrast, left dislocation is like clefting: it can be used to emphasize or define a topic. For example, the sentence This little girl, the dog bit her has the same meaning as The dog bit this little girl but it emphasizes that the little girl (and not the dog) is the topic of interest. One might expect the next sentence to be The little girl needs to see a doctor, rather than The dog needs to be leashed. This type of dislocation is a feature of topic-prominent languages.
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.