Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dislocation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dislocation \Dis`lo*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dislocation.]
1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
--T. Burnet.
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.
3. (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint;
also, the condition of being thus displaced.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dislocation
n 1: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
[syn: {disruption}]
2: the act of disrupting an established order [syn: {breakdown}]
3: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal
position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
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