Dislocation Definition

dĭslō-kāshən
dislocations
noun
dislocations
A dislocating or being dislocated.
Webster's New World
The act or process of dislocating or the state of having been dislocated.
American Heritage
Displacement of a body part, especially the temporary displacement of a bone from its normal position.
American Heritage Medicine
An imperfection in the atomic structure of a crystal, usually consisting of one or more missing or disordered atoms in the crystal lattice.
Webster's New World

The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

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Other Word Forms of Dislocation

Noun

Singular:
dislocation
Plural:
dislocations

Origin of Dislocation

  • Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Medieval Latin dislocatio, delocatio

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Dislocation Sentence Examples

  • They sometimes cause a serious dislocation of railway and other traffic. Their principal cause is the smoke from the general domestic use of coal.

  • The confluence of the regions of the body and the dislocation of apertures from their typical position are results of degeneration.

  • A similar rotation and dislocation occurs in various petrels, in correlation with the indigestible sepia-bills, &c., which these birds swallow in great quantities.

  • The Simplon Pass corresponds to what may be called a dislocation of the main chain.

  • But the dislocation of religious thinking, when Christianity ceased to be a Jewish faith and found a home with Gentiles, destroyed the continuity of Paulinism and of Jewish thought working through St Paul.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

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NONION

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Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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