What is "dislocations"

Usage examples of "dislocations".

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.

Figures 1 and 2 (see page 310) show the two types of dislocations that occur to some degree in all crystals.

Real dislocations are not as idealized as "edge" or "screw" represent them.

dislocations exert forces on one another, sometimes forming stable arrays that are bound together and sometimes exerting repulsive forces that drive the dislocations apart.

The storage and utilization of energy, which in biological life is accomplished through chemical means, can be provided by the interaction of dislocations, which would act as the molecules of a crystalline life form.

From examination of the distance between dislocations generated by a Frank-Reed source, one could, in principle, reconstruct the deformation history of a crystal.

After all, dislocations exert forces on each other and arrays of dislocations store energy, whereas the uniform structure of the crystal might seem to be no more than an "ether" through which the dislocations move.

Over many eons, those dislocations that are the most efficient at reproducing themselves will be the ones that dominate.

Even when in contact the transmission of dislocations would be very poor unless certain geometric considerations are met.

If one were to bombard a Frank-Reed source with any other frequency, it could generate more dislocations, that is, the Frank-Reed source will operate.

In the beginning, there were always dislocations -- industries made obsolete, inflexible ruling classes displaced, a general aura of impermanence in the lives of the beings involved.

The surge of invention that inevitably followed more than made up for any temporary dislocations the local population suffered.